Kate, a director and theatremaker, is inspired by theatre as collaborative craft to celebrate community, deepen belonging, and rediscover place. As Founding Artistic Director of Threadbare Theatre Workshop, she has adapted, directed, and devised original, site-responsive plays and reimaginings of the classics in New York City and rural places across Maine.

Kate believes the creative impulse belongs to everyone and that storytelling is at the heart of who we are. Her work leans into the mythic, epic, and bold with a deft simplicity and unabashed theatricality. She is drawn to stories and characters historically kept in the shadows; illuminating their depths in spare, embodied, and lyrical ways. 

Kate meets every project as a creative collaborator in the spirit of both rigor and play, driven by a boundless curiosity for the human condition and our connection to the natural world. As a theatre artist, she balances a full interrogation of the text with spaciousness for surprise and discovery. She seeks to create intimate spaces for the collective’s shared experience of the vivid, transformative, and profound; a poetic realm for the quiet reckoning of who we are and who we might be.

Kate’s work has been praised in American Theatre Magazine, the New York Times, and The Creators Project. She is a Princess Grace Award winner and Emerging Leader of New York Arts fellow. Kate trained as a theatre director at The Lir National Academy of Dramatic Art. She holds a BFA in Acting from Rutgers, and spent her most formative year at Shakespeare’s Globe under the tutelage of Mike Alfreds.

In addition to her work as a director, Kate has performed in film, television, regionally, and off-Broadway. She is both an Irish and American citizen, currently based in Dublin.