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Originally from the farms and fields of upstate New York, Kate is an award-winning NYC-based actor/playwright. She still knows how to milk a cow - albeit not well (both she and the cow get verrry nervous).

She is deeply passionate about creating new feminist, female-centered classics, both in new plays and in adaptation - stories that center around complicated women. Her work as a playwright celebrates theatricality, often features absurdity, and closely examines social and gender issues - as well as the timeless struggle to reconcile conscience / identity with social pressures. As an actor, she tends to play people with intense drives and desires - truth-tellers, oddballs, and misfits.

Kate was named 2017's Playwright of the Year by the Wall Street Journal.  She has been one of the 10 most-produced playwrights in the country for the last 7 years running, from 2017-2024; she is now the most-produced playwright in the USA. In both 2017-2018 and 2018-2019, she wrote two of the top 10 most produced plays in the U.S.; many of her plays have been produced internationally. Future productions on the UPCOMING page, including 3 world premieres in 2024: The Scarlet Letter at Two River Theater, The Light and The Dark (the life and times of Artemisia Gentileschi) off-Bway at Primary Stages / Chautauqua Theater Company, and The Odyssey at ART. Her previously-produced plays include Sense and Sensibility (Bedlam; in which she originated the role of Marianne) - Winner, Off-Broadway Alliance Award; Nominee, Drama League Award; "the greatest stage adaptation of this novel in history” - Huffington Post. Other plays include Vanity Fair (The Pearl; in which she originated the role of Becky Sharp; Nominee, Off Broadway Alliance Award; WSJ Critic's Pick), Pride and Prejudice (Primary Stages / HVSF; in which she originated the role of Lizzy Bennet; Nominee, Off Broadway Alliance Award; "Best Theater of 2017", Huffington Post; WSJ Critic's Pick), Little Women, Mansfield Park (originated role of Mary Crawford), and Dracula (Classic Stage Company; originated role of Renfield; WSJ Critic’s Pick); Emma (The Guthrie; Winner, best play, BroadwayWorld; Winner, best new play, BroadwayWorld); Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson - Apt. 2B (Kansas City Rep; originated role of Joan Watson.) and The Little Fellow (or, the Queen of Tarts tells All) at Cygnet Theater.

Her plays have been produced off-Broadway, at A.R.T., Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Guthrie, Hartford Stage, Portland Center Stage, Seattle Rep, PlayMaker’s Rep, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theater Center, Folger Theatre (8 Helen Hayes Award nominations; Winner, best production), Shakespeare Theater of DC, The Alley, A.C.T., and more. Kate’s Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice,Vanity Fair, and Little Women are published by DPS; Kate’s Emma, Dracula (a feminist revenge fantasy), and Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson, - Apt. 2B are published by TRW. She is currently working on an adaptation of The Odyssey and a Christmas play called Scrooge for Senate as well as several new original plays - including Love Poem, In The Mines (Sundance Semi-Finalist), Em (Red Bull New Play finalist), the Prostitute Play (O'Neill Semi-Finalist), The Piper (O’Neill Finalist, PlayPenn Haas Fellow play, and The Light and the Dark.

 Additional acting credits include: Talley’s Folly (Syracuse Stage; WSJ Critic’s Pick; TheaterMania best productions of 2020), The Play That Goes Wrong, The Seagull (Bedlam; "best classical productions of 2014" - WSJ) Noises Off (Syracuse Stage), The General from America (HVSF), Cyrano (“Outstanding Performance by an Actress”- DFW Critics Awards, Amphibian Stage), Pride and Prejudice (Syracuse Stage); BadAssGalBoss Power House (Primary Stages); Dreams of A West Texas Marsupial Girl (PearlDamour),  All That Fall (Cherry Lane), and more. Numerous independent films that she has performed in have gone on to festival success, including: Clermont Ferrand Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, Festival del Film Locarno, Brooklyn Film Festival, Boston Int'l Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival (Jury Award Finalist), Honolulu Film Festival, Black Maria Film Festival (Stellar Award), etc. Kate has a BFA in Acting, Ithaca College. 

Kate is also a screenwriter and has a feature film in development at the moment… stay tuned.

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