Kate Dove

Lady Bracknell


Kate trained in New York in the mid 1970s and on her return to the UK, worked for two years with Northumberland Theatre Company playing a wide variety of roles from Ayckbourn to Shaw as well as working on new writing and improvisation.

Kate has toured extensively.  Some of this was with Century Theatre where parts included Mrs Clandon in Shaw’s You Never Can Tell, Mrs Prentice in Orton’s What the Butler Saw, Lady Fancyfull in Vanburgh’s The Provok’d Wife and Phyllis in Ayckbourn’s Season’s Greetings with the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds as Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and with an Australian company, she toured New Zealand as Mrs Meadow in Steaming.

Repertory work includes York playing Mrs Squeamish in The Country Wife and Mrs Marwood in The Way of the World”, Plymouth as Miss Bennett in Agatha Christie’s The Unexpected Guest, Manchester Library Theatre as Mrs Turing  in Breaking the Code and for the Haymarket, Basingstoke, Mrs Harte in Peter Gill’s Small Change.

Kate has spent time in Samara, Russia, playing Gertrude in Hamlet and Lady Politic-Would-Be in Volpone, both in Russian.

Television work includes all three seasons of Adam’s Family Tree as the mad Mrs Copstick and four years as Elizabeth Pollard in Emmerdale.

She is delighted to be working again with Vienna’s English Theatre, where she appeared previously as Catherine Petkoff in Arms and the Man, and equally delighted to be back in Vienna itself.