Kate Prince

Kate Prince (Choreographer, Director & Writer) is Artistic Director of ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company, which she founded in 2002. Kate is an Associate Artist at the Old Vic and at Sadler’s Wells, where ZooNation is also a Resident Company.

ZooNation productions include: Into the Hoods (Novello Theatre 2008) which was the West End’s first hip hop dance show, Some Like it Hip Hop (Sadler’s Wells Peacock 2011-13 and UK tour), Groove on Down the Road (SouthBank Centre 2013-14), ZooNation: Unplugged (Sadler’s Wells 2013), The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party (Royal Opera House Linbury Studio 2014 and the Roundhouse 2016), Into the Hoods: Remixed (Sadler’s Wells Peacock 2015-16 and UK tour), SYLVIA (The Old Vic 2018 and 2023 ). In 2020 Kate created, directed and choreographed Message In A Bottle (Sadler’s Wells & Universal Music) at the Peacock Theatre.
The company also created special performances for Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday celebrations in Hyde Park 2008 and for the Laurence Olivier Awards in 2011 creating new choreography for West Side Story with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

For TV Kate’s credits include work for Strictly Come Dancing, So You Think You Can Dance, The Royal Variety Show, Top of the Pops, Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Take Away, CD:UK, Blue Peter, Strictly Dance Fever, Sport Relief, The Album Chart Show, Discomania and PopWorld.

Her film work includes choreography for Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (WARP, Channel 4 Films & New Regency), StreetDance 3D (Vertigo & BBC Films) The Holloway Laundrette, which she wrote & directed for BAFTA/Channel 4.

Other theatre work includes Everybody’s Talking About Jamie for Jonathan Butterell (Sheffield Crucible & West End, nominated for Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer), Enda Walsh’s Ballyturk (National Theatre), Stephen Mear’s Shoes (Sadler’s Wells), I Can’t Sing: the X-Factor Musical (Palladium) and It’s A Mad World my Masters (RSC), both for Sean Foley.

With ZooNation she has also created choreography for sporting events, including the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Handover Ceremonies (2008), the Opening Ceremony of the Tour de France (2007) and the IOC opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics at the Royal Opera House.

Kate has been nominated for three Olivier Awards, a South Bank Sky Arts Award, a WhatsOnStage Award and two Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards. Kate is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh with an MA in General Arts and has an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Winchester.

In 2017, ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company became an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation for 2018-22. Kate was awarded an MBE for services to dance in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list, 2019.

Kate is represented by Casarotto Ramsay & Associates in London and UTA in Los Angeles.