Cate Murray

Cate Murray studied Communications (Theatre/Media) at Charles Sturt University, Bathurst (a regional city in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, approximately 200 kilometres north-west of Sydney). Her graduation performance was the lead of Antigone in Greg McCart's adaptation of 'Antigone'. During the last semester of Communications she joined Self Raising Theatre Company. SRTC devised and toured community-based, performance projects to rural communities around Central and Western NSW. In 1989 Cate joined the Hunter Valley Theater Company performing in 'Blast Me Barnacles' a children's theatre romp around Fort Scratchley's battlements. Cate next starred as Annnie Morton in the HVTC's world premier production of 'Once a Bold Collier' . Written by David Allen it documented the infamous mine lock out of 1929 and the ill-fated miners rebellion that ensued. The production premiered at Newcastle's Civic Theatre Playhouse and then toured selected venues in the Hunter Valley Cate joined Freewheels Theatre In Education, touring a noir-styled adaptation of 'Medea' to secondary schools in Newcastle and the Hunter Valley. In this production she appeared as a solo chorus/jazz chanteuse with her dialogue sung to original jazz compositions by Robert Constable, Deputy Principal of the Newcastle Conservatorium. Cate was awarded the Florence Austral Singing scholarship which provided 1 year of singing tuition and musicianship theory.