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, often 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 is thrilled by metaphor as a universal tool to transcend the complexities of the human experience, and believes theatre is as close to magic as we can get.
With an eye towards sustainability and community-based practices, Kate founded Threadbare Theatre Workshop in 2014, illuminating epics in a simple way through the magic of resourceful storytelling. 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 could be.
“Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and staff, my resting place and shield, and not mine only, for art leaves nobody out. Even those from whom art has been stolen away by tyranny, by poverty, begin to make it again. If the arts did not exist, at every moment, someone would begin to create them, in song, out of dust and mud, and although the artifacts might be destroyed, the energy that creates them is not destroyed.”