Kate Mulvany is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and actor. Her plays include Medea (created with Anne-Louise Sarks), The Danger Age, The Web and The Seed which is currently being developed into a feature film. Her latest play The Rasputin Affair has just been shortlisted for an AWGIE award. She adapted the much-loved children’s book by Kit Williams, Masquerade and her stage adaptation of Craig Silvey’s novel Jasper Jones was highly praised. Her stage credits include: The Literati, Tartuffe and Mr Bailey’s Minder . Her recent portrayal of Richard III for Bell Shakespeare garnered rave reviews.

"Mary Stuart, in a new adaptation by Kate Mulvany offers a different kind of catharsis: the act of reclaiming women’s stories with empathy, insight and, crucially, by allowing women of the past to finally have a voice." -- Time Out Sydney