Kay graduated from West Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 1988. Since moving to Sydney in 1989 Kay has worked professionally as a dancer and actor in theatre, film, television, theatre-in-education, corporate theatre and street theatre. She has been seen in T.V commercials, feature film and theatre, working with high calibre companies such as Bell Shakespeare and Theatre South.

She is a prolific and committed member of the NSW independent dance community and has choreographed numerous works, which have been seen in solo productions, festivals, schools, film and street theatre. Her work has toured within NSW, interstate and overseas.

From 1991- 1996 Kay had formed her own dance theatre company, Halex Vargus, and toured the company and her work nationally and overseas.

Since 1996 Kay has been exploring solo work and has to date produced three full-length productions and numerous short works. These pieces have been performed in festivals both nationally and overseas.

She had a long-standing relationship with One Extra Dance Company performing with them originally in 1990 then returning in 2000 as an affiliated artist. Kay joined One Extra in several projects as a performer and three solo productions as choreographer / performer.

In 2004 she was awarded the prestigious Robert Helpmann Scholarship. The scholarship afforded her one-year of professional development, during this time she travelled overseas participating in workshops and choreographic laboratories in Italy, Brussels, Amsterdam. England and France.

In 2006 Kay re-joined Dean Walsh’s project BACK FROM FRONT in its second development stage, toured her solo work to Dancehouse as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, continued her choreographic investigations with a Critical Path research dance film project and was invited to partake in the Thierry de Mey dance film workshop hosted by Reeldance and Critical Path. She also choreographed works for the BA Dance course at UNSW and Stella Maris College. She also joined a collaborative team of independent artists in the development of a new site-specific production for the Historic Houses Trust.

At the beginning of this 2007 Kay was appointed Artistic Director of pulse8, a youth dance company committed to providing a platform for emerging, talented young dancers and dance makers.

In October 2007 Kay performed a solo work in the inaugural Short and Sweet Dance Festival, taking out the Judges Choice Award for outstanding choreography / performance. She was appointed 2007 Artist Representative on the board of the peak dance research organization of NSW, Critical Path, and was also voted one of Australia’s most interesting artist’s by Dance Australia’s Jacqueline Pascoe, as part of the 2007 Dance Australia Critic’s Survey.

In 2008 Kay was invited by DirtyFeet to remount her work Full Cup, Steady Hand which was performed in August as part of their sell-out season, Under The Weather. She was also invited to sit on their board for 2008.

Since becoming Artistic Director with pulse8 in 2007, Kay has produced four main seasons, two outdoor events, two education programs and mentored over forty young aspiring dancers.