Kate is an award-winning director and theatremaker with twenty years’ experience as a professional theatre artist, creative producer, community organizer, and administrator. As Founding Artistic Director of Threadbare Theatre Workshop, she has adapted, devised, and directed original, large-scale, site-responsive plays and reimaginings of the classics in New York City and rural places across Maine. Her work has been praised in American Theatre Magazine, the New York Times, and The Creator’s Project.

Kate believes the creative impulse belongs to everyone and that storytelling is at the heart of who we are. She is inspired by theatre as a collaborative craft to celebrate community, deepen belonging, and rediscover place. She creates vivid, intimate worlds for our shared experience of the transformative and profound– a poetic realm for the collective reckoning of who we are and who we could be.

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.

Kate trained as a theatre director at The Lir (MFA, Trinity College Dublin), Cheek by Jowl and SITI Company. She 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.

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.