Katy Alexander is a director and multimedia storytelling artist whose work explores the intersection of live performance, media and audience experience. Originally trained as a theatre director at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), she creates interdisciplinary projects that combine theatre, film, projection and emerging technologies to develop new forms of audience experience.

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Her work ranges from intimate theatrical productions to large-scale multimedia performances and events. She collaborates with performers, designers, technologists and writers to create visually rich storytelling environments integrating projection, animation, motion graphics, live performance and digital media.

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Katy has directed and developed work across Australia, Europe and North America. Her collaborators and clients have included the Sydney Opera House, Imagination, Ogilvy & Mather, Heckler, NIDA and CalArts. She has also worked with internationally recognised innovators in multimedia performance including Robert Lepage and Ex Machina in Quebec and The Builders Association in New York.

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She founded the performance ensemble Night Parrot Productions, through which she creates site-specific projection theatre and multimedia performance works including Alter Ego, presented as part of the Vivid Sydney Light Walk.

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Alongside her creative practice, Katy holds a PhD in Integrated Media Performance from the University of New South Wales and is currently Research Manager at the CREATE Centre at the University of Sydney, supporting practice-led research exploring creativity across education, wellbeing and community contexts.

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Her work is driven by a fascination with how audiences encounter stories in shared spaces — whether through theatre, digital media or emerging immersive experiences.