Kate is an award-winning director + theatremaker with experience as a creative producer, community organizer, and nonprofit administrator. As Founding Artistic Director of Threadbare Theatre Workshop, she adapts, devises, and directs original, large-scale, site-responsive plays and bold reimaginings of the classics in alternative NYC spaces and rural places across Maine. Her work has been praised in American Theatre Magazine, the New York Times, and The Creator’s Project.

Kate is inspired by theatre as a collaborative craft to celebrate community, deepen belonging, and rediscover place. She is drawn to questions, stories and characters historically kept in the shadows; illuminating their depths in spare, embodied, and lyrical ways. Her work leans into the mythic, epic, and bold with a deft simplicity and unabashed theatricality. Kate meets every project as a creative collaborator in the spirit of rigor and play, driven by a boundless curiosity for the human condition and our connection to the natural world.

Kate holds a BFA in Theatre Arts (Acting) from Rutgers, Mason Gross School of the Arts and spent her most formative year at Shakespeare’s Globe under the tutelage of Mike Alfreds. She trained as a theatre director at The Lir, Trinity College Dublin (MFA, distinction). Kate has performed in film, television, regionally and off-Broadway as well as narrated numerous audiobooks. She is a Princess Grace Award recipient, Maine Artist fellow, and Emerging Leader of NY Arts fellow.

Kate grew up on unceded Lenape land in what we now call New Jersey, and spent childhood summers on her mother’s family farm in the Irish Midlands. She is a dual citizen of Ireland and the United States.