Katie Tranter is an award winning Actor, Musician, Puppeteer, Skin Performer and Movement Director based in the UK. She is from the Welsh Borders and can work in both English and Spanish.

Twice an OFFIE award finalist, Katie is known for her physicality and ability to create bold, precise characters to 'impressive and hilarious' effect. (The Upcoming). 

She holds the 2019 Audience's Choice Award for her company's show Canary from Prague International Fringe Festival which she produced, co-created and performed in.

Katie has done a bit of everything from commedia dell’arte in Spain to playing an accordion down a mine and puppeteered some real vegetables for an ALDI commercial along the way. Philippe Gaulier told her to get in the bin and a casting director from Cirque Du Soleil said she has a 'good face' (but didn't give her a job because 'they don't work with many female clowns'. She’s performed at the Royal Albert Hall, been a creature performer on Doctor Who and recently worked with Jim Carrey on Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

She is twice an OFFIE award finalist for her performances in Tall Stories’ The Canterville Ghost and Iris Theatre’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. She is co-creator of dark clown comedy Canary for Fun in the Oven Theatre winning the Audience’s Choice Award at Prague Fringe Festival.

She trained with the National Youth Theatre before going on to achieve a First Class BA (Hons) in Drama from the University of Exeter.  Along the way she has trained with renowned teachers including Phillip Zarrilli, Philippe Gaulier, John Wright and Avner Eisenberg,
 
Between 2010 and 2015 she earned her stripes in rural touring, outdoor theatre and community arts before taking two years out to train at Escuela Nouveau Colombier under some of Europe's top physical theatre masters. There she learned to create, direct and perform using bold languages of ensemble physical theatre, mime, mask, clown and bouffon. She also trained extensively in suzuki, viewpoints and butoh. 

Since then she has been performing, creating and directing all over the UK with an increasing focus on movement, skin performance and puppetry. 

Selected theatre credits include Cinderella: A Fairytale (Northern Stage), The Canterville Ghost (Tall Stories), Recycled Rubbish (Theatre-Rites), Father Christmas (Royal Albert Hall), Wind in the Willows (Alnwick Playhouse), Rumpelstiltskin (Insane Root), Pirate Bonnie (Fidget Theatre), Smoosh! (Paraorchestra), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Actor's Church), Tiny Heroes (Daniel Bye), Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Derby Theatre/Hiccup). 

TV credits include Knuckles (Paramount), Doctor Who: Flux (BBC), The Edwardian Farm (Lion Television) and Becoming Elizabeth (Starz). 

As a Movement Director & Associate her credits include Macbeth (Northumberland Theatre Company), We Cannot Walk Alone (Here) (The Arriving Group & Curious Monkey), Street Magic (Paul Dewhurst-Magician), Deeds (Five Ring Circus) and Comrades (Exeter Northcott). 

Her credits as Musical Director include Jackie & the Beanstalk (Curly Tales & Leeds Playhouse), Sea of Stories (Seadog & ARC Stockton) and Comrades (Exeter Northcott).