Performing Arts

The Harlequin Performing Arts Academy

Kate Gillespie Kate Gillespie
West End Star

Training: Mountview academy of Theatre Arts

Theatre includes: Pearl, one of the Dynamites in the original West End cast of Hairspray (Shaftesbury), Fate in Wig Out (Royal Court) and Diva in the original West End cast of Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Palace).Her professional debut was as Liat in South Pacific (Grange Park Opera), Female tribe member in Hair (Gate), The Princess alongside Sir Ian McKellen as widow Twankey in Aladdin (Old Vic), Nala in the Lion King Paris, Genie of the Ring in Aladdin (Eastbourne Devonshire Park), Stephany in Tender Dearly (West Yorkshire Playhouse).

Television included: DC Chatterton in Emmerdale

Other work includes: Daddy Cool the workshop, Dusty the workshop and currently appearing in the Boots the Chemist advertisement campaigns. A Lead singer in the band Bloomfield Avenue and a solo artist for Globestar Management