In 2017 Kirsty was nominated for an Olivier Award for 'Best Actress in a Supporting Role' along with the cast of Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour and in November was named number 7 in The List magazine’s ‘Hot 100’ Scottish cultural contributors of 2024.

Kirsty's theatre work includes: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Footloose, Sense & Sensibility (all for Pitlochry Festival Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Dundee Rep); Forever Home, Exquisite Corpse & Oscar (all for A Play, a Pie & a Pint); A Mother's Song (Kate Taylor & Macrobert Arts Centre); Islander: The Musical (Helen Milne Productions, New York Off-Broadway, UK tour and London transfer); Jack & the Beanstalk (Perth Theatre); Jamie & the Unicorn (Ayr Gaiety); Christmas Tales (Edinburgh Lyceum); Unspotted Snow (Mull Theatre); Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (National Theatre of Scotland &

Sonia Friedman Productions); Shattered (In Motion); Girl Meets Boy (National Theatre of Scotland); Sleeping, Beauty and Beauty and the Beast (both Glasgow Rep & St Andrews Byre)

Kirsty's film credits include: Close (Tom Gentle Productions); Scenes for Survival (NTS/ BBC); On the Outside (Nasreen Saraei; and Lethe (December Works), which won her Best Actress at the Scottish Short Film Festival in 2016.

Recordings include: A Mother’s Song (Kate Taylor & Macrobert Arts Centre); Atlantic: A Scottish Story (Noisemaker Productions); The 306: Dawn, Day & Dusk (NTS); and Islander: The Musical (Helen Milne Productions).