My Profile

Dr Kath Kenny is a researcher, writer and cultural historian. Her book Staging a Revolution (2022 Upswell Publishing) told the little known story of women at Melbourne's legendary Pram Factory theatre who staged the first women's liberation play in Australia in 1972. She won the History Publication Award at the 2023 Victorian Community History Awards, and was long-listed for the Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award. Her features and commentary have appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, ABC, Meanjin, Australian Book Review, The Monthly, The Saturday Paper, The Guardian, and numerous other publications. She contributed the lead chapters to the anthologies #MeToo: Stories from the Australian Movement and Fashion: New Feminist Essays. She is co-president of the Sydney Writers’ Room and a 2024 Visiting Scholar at the State Library of NSW, researching the life of dance-drama choreographer Margaret Barr. In 2024, she was one of the inaugural recipients of the Whitlam Essay Residency (Varuna and the Whitlam Institute). She recently completed a doctoral thesis at Macquarie University, which received the Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for Academic Excellence and was shortlisted for the Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association PhD Award. She lives on unceded Gadigal land in Sydney’s inner west.