Kate's Blog.

Kate Fox is a poet. A regular on Radio 4’s “Saturday Live”, she has also recently performed her satirical poems on the Radio 4 shows; “You and Yours”, “The Wondermentalist Cabaret”, “Arthur Smith’s Edinburgh Bash” and “Doggerel Bard” as well as on BBC2’s Daily Politics Show and BBC2’s Chelsea Flower Show coverage.

Her one woman show Kate Fox News toured to the Edinburgh Festival and nationally and was given 4 stars and described as “Funny and affecting” by the Sunday Telegraph whilst “WhatsonStage.Com” also rated it with 4 stars and said she “delivers with energy and pathos in equal measure”.

Her poetry has received the prestigious Andrew Waterhouse Award from New Writing North and an Arts Council Award. She was also a finalist in the Radio 4 Poetry Slam in 2007 and won the Cheltenham Science Festival Poetry slam in the same year, as well as various other performance poetry competitions.

She has developed work as an Associate Artist at New Writing North and ARC arts centre in Stockton and undertaken many residencies including for the Great North Run, Darlington Railway Museum, Humber Mouth Festival, HMP Frankland, the Free Word Centre in London, Fest Magazine in Edinburgh and NHS leadership conferences.

"Her end rhymes alone are laugh out loud funny"
- Poetry News

"Kate Fox, the main act, made everyone laugh with her diatribes against short girls, Richard and Judy and poorly written text messages."
- Daily Telegraph

"Kate Fox is a wonderful storyteller"
- Three Weeks

"Reminds us of ‘northern’ artistes, Willy Russell, Victoria Wood, Roger McGough and Alan Bennett"
- Whatsonstage.com

To find out more about the show "21st Century Fox" click below

To find out more about the show "A Portrait of the Autist as A Young Woman" click below