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Kate Saxon is a British freelance TV, theatre and videogames cinematic director who lives in London. Amongst her TV credits, Kate directed 3 episodes of Endeavour, including the final episode which aired in 2023. She was Associate Director of Shared Experience theatre company from 2000 to 2012 and became an Associate Artist of the company.[1] Kate was the original Chair of Stage Directors UK. Video games that Kate has been Performance and Voice Director of include Battlefield 2042, Mafia III, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Alien: Isolation, Fable II & Fable III, Still Wakes the Deep, Resident Evil Requiem.

Early life and education

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Saxon was brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.[2] When Saxon was 14, she auditioned for the Royal Shakespeare Company and was cast in two productions (Mary, After the Queen and The Dillen), which she performed in for two years in her evenings after school.[3] She then went to a sixth form drama college, then to the University of Hull, graduating with a BA in English Literature and Drama.[4] Afterwards, Saxon went to study acting at East 15 Acting School, then she carried on acting until her late 20s before she moved on to directing.[5][4] Her first professional show was The Secret Garden at Salisbury Playhouse in 1999.[4] Immediately after, Saxon left the Playhouse and began her assisting years in Opera, where she started to learn her craft as a director.[4]

Theatre

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Saxon directed Phil Daniels in David Edgar's Jekyll and Hyde [6] in 2018 and was director of the successful 2015 production of Alan Bennett's The History Boys for Sell A Door Theatre Company national UK tour.[7] The Times gave 4 stars, stating: "Saxon definitely handles the shifts from the intimate and intellectual to the riotous."[8] Saxon's productions include Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing[9] which toured nationally in 2012 and The Years Between in 2011,[10] for which her leading actress, Marianne Oldham, was nominated for Best Performer at the UK Theatre Awards.[11] Saxon's productions also include the premiere of Mark Healy's 2008 adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd for English Touring Theatre,[12] and John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman, which premiered at the Fulton Opera House before a UK tour.[13] For the Orange Tree Theatre's Susan Glaspell season Saxon staged the first revival of Glaspell's 1922 comedy Chains of Dew in March 2008.[14] Saxon was Associate Director of the West End run and the international tour of Polly Teale's After Mrs. Rochester. It was first presented in 2003 in London by the Shared Experience theatre company and directed by the author.[15]

Her international productions include Nine Parts of Desire at The Public Theater in New York City and later at The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia.[16] The production was the winner of two Barrymore Awards.[17]

Game directing

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Saxon is a cinematic performance capture and voice director. She was a performance director on Hangar 13's Mafia III,[18] and performance and voice director on The Chinese Room's Everybody's Gone to the Rapture[19] with Merle Dandridge, who earned a BAFTA Award for her voiceover performance.[20] Saxon was a performance and voice director on Alien: Isolation,[19] which was released by Creative Assembly to great acclaim, winning a BAFTA Award for Audio Achievement.[21] Saxon was also a performance and voice director on CD Projekt's The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt,[22][23] the most nominated game in the Game Awards 2015.[24] She served as a performance and voice director for video games Far Cry 3, James Bond 007: Blood Stone and GoldenEye 007: Reloaded.[19] As a cinematic and voice director on Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, she directed an all-star cast, including Patrick Stewart, Robert Carlyle and Jason Isaacs.[25] Saxon also served as a cinematic and voice director on The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings,[26] which won over 50 awards globally including a number for best character and best voice acting.[27] Prior to this, she served as a voice director for Funcom's popular MMORPG Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures.[28] For Ninja Theory's Heavenly Sword, Saxon directed all the lead level and AI dialogue and was a lead voice director on BAFTA winner Lionhead Studios' Fable II,[19] which also won the Develop Award for Audio Accomplishment in 2009.[29] For Fable III Saxon directed a cast of over 80 actors, including Ben Kingsley, Michael Fassbender, Simon Pegg, Naomie Harris and John Cleese.[30] Saxon provided performance and voiceover direction for Killzone 2 and Killzone: Mercenary.[19] She also directed Dragon Quest: Journey of the Cursed King,[19] and for LucasArts' Star Wars: The Force Unleashed she cast European roles.[31]

In 2024, Saxon was a casting and voice director on The Chinese Room's Still Wakes the Deep,[32] winner of three BAFTA Games Awards with Alec Newman taking home the BAFTA for Performer in a Leading Role.[33] In 2025, she served as a casting and voice director on Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2,[34] and a voice director on a story-driven sci-fi survival video game The Alters.[35]

Saxon served as a casting, performance and voice director for Capcom's 2026 title Resident Evil: Requiem.[36] Imaginarium Studios provided motion capture services for the game.[37]

Television

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Saxon has directed two episodes of Silent Witness,[38] two episodes of Grace,[39] the latter of which aired in 2024, and three episodes of Endeavour including the finale.[40] She has also directed two episodes of Call The Midwife series 8,[41] which aired in 2019. Saxon has directed episodes of Casualty,[42] EastEnders[43] and Doctors series 17.[44] In 2013, Saxon trained in multi-cam directing on the set of EastEnders[45] and went on to direct several episodes, as well as the BBC Red Button episode "T & B 4 Eva".[46][47] In 2017, Saxon was selected as one of only 15 UK female screen directors for BAFTA Elevate.[48]

References

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  1. ↑ "Shared Experience Theatre". Archived from the original on 29 August 2007. Retrieved 12 December 2007.
  2. ↑ "Thought provoking As You Like It is fresh take on Shakespeare's classic". The Westmorland Gazette. 31 July 2017. Retrieved 23 July 2026.
  3. ↑ "The secret of bringing a literary classic to life". Chester Chronicle. 6 July 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2026.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Barcroft, Damian Michael (15 March 2023). "Kate Saxon director interview". Retrieved 23 July 2026.
  5. ↑ McArthur, Amanda (26 April 2017). "Interview with Video Game Voice Acting Director Kate Saxon". www.sweetyhigh.com. Retrieved 23 July 2026.
  6. ↑ "Review: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Gothic drama fails to live up to Stevenson's classic tale". Edinburgh Evening News. 13 April 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  7. ↑ Gardner, Lyn (7 April 2015). "The History Boys review – still full of wit and wisdom". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  8. ↑ Marlowe, Sam (1 January 2024). "The History Boys at Belgrade, Coventry". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  9. ↑ Hickling, Alfred (10 May 2012). "The Real Thing – review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  10. ↑ "The Years Between (Northampton)". WhatsOnStage. 9 February 2011. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  11. ↑ "UK Theatre Awards 2011 nominations". BBC News. 30 September 2011. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  12. ↑ Mahoney, Elisabeth (17 September 2008). "Far from the Madding Crowd". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  13. ↑ Gardner, Lyn (24 October 2006). "The French Lieutenant's Woman". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  14. ↑ Billington, Michael (17 March 2008). "Chains of Dew". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  15. ↑ Gardner, Lyn (29 April 2003). "After Mrs Rochester". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  16. ↑ Baranello, Micaela (10 February 2006). "Weekend Roundup: Nine Parts of Desire". The Phoenix. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  17. ↑ "Barrymore Winners 2006". Playbill. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  18. ↑ Writer, Sophie McEvoy Staff (25 June 2024). "How to support performance actors during game development". GamesIndustry.biz. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  19. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Kate Saxon". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  20. ↑ Stuart, Keith (7 April 2016). "Bafta game awards 2016 – Independent titles dominate". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  21. ↑ "Audio Achievement". Bafta. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  22. ↑ Stein, Zack (29 May 2015). "This Is How Big the Script Was for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt". IGN. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  23. ↑ "The Witcher 3 performance director can't see AI fully replacing actors as "It can't replace that human spark"". GamesRadar+. 15 April 2025. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  24. ↑ Monroe, David (16 November 2015). "The Game Awards 2015: Official Nominations Announced". Screen Rant. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  25. ↑ McArthur, Amanda (26 April 2017). "Interview with Video Game Voice Acting Director Kate Saxon". www.sweetyhigh.com. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  26. ↑ Purchese, Robert (27 January 2017). "The voice behind The Witcher". Eurogamer. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  27. ↑ Hopley, Alex (2 December 2022). "The Case for a Witcher 2 Remake". Game Rant. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  28. ↑ "Manual of Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures" (PDF). Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  29. ↑ "Media Molecule, LittleBigPlanet Dominate Develop Awards". Game Developer. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  30. ↑ "Side - Fable III". GamesIndustry.biz. 10 November 2010. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  31. ↑ "Manual of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed" (PDF). Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  32. ↑ "Kate Saxon Interview: The Voices of Still Wakes the Deep". store.steampowered.com. 13 August 2024. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  33. ↑ "Performer in a Leading Role". Bafta. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  34. ↑ "Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 | Voice Cast Reveal". www.thechineseroom.co.uk. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  35. ↑ "The Alters is a "journey of discovery" that will have you asking one of life's biggest questions in 2025". GamesRadar+. 19 January 2025. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  36. ↑ Broadwell, Josh (15 March 2026). "'I need you to die for about two to three minutes': Angela Sant'Albano talks playing RE: Requiem's Grace". Polygon. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  37. ↑ "Imaginarium Studios - Motion Capture Specialists | Performance Capture". Imaginarium Studios. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  38. ↑ "BBC One - Silent Witness, Series 23, Seven Times, Part 2". BBC. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  39. ↑ "ITV detective drama, Grace, begins filming in Brighton". itv.com. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  40. ↑ Cormack, Morgan. "Endeavour's finale delivers incredible tribute to John Thaw's Morse | Radio Times". Radio Times. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  41. ↑ "BBC One - Call the Midwife, Series 8, Episode 3". BBC. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  42. ↑ "BBC One - Casualty (Archive), Series 33, Episode 30". BBC. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  43. ↑ "BBC One - EastEnders". BBC. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  44. ↑ "BBC One - Doctors - Episode guide". BBC. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  45. ↑ "BBC Academy - Production - EastEnders: from stage to screen". BBC Online. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
  46. ↑ "BBC - Blogs - EastEnders News & Spoilers - Bianca and Terry Red Button mini episode announced". EastEnders. BBC Online. 24 October 2013. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
  47. ↑ "BBC One - EastEnders, B&T 4 Eva - Behind The Scenes! - Director's orders!". BBC. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  48. ↑ "Meet the BAFTA Elevate Female Directors 2017". Bafta. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
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