Kathryn Ash has worked for over twenty-five years in theatre, as a performer, writer and dramaturge and is a co-founder of JUTE Theatre Company in Cairns. As a successful published writer, she has written some fifteen plays, including Cake, Flutter; and New Dramatist’s Award-winning Bag O’ Marbles. As a dramaturge, she helped plan and run the award-winning Enter Stage Write a program for the development of new works for performance, a program that still flourishes some 14 years after its beginning.