About Kate

When Kate’s mother was pregnant with her, she was reading Katharine Hepburn’s biography, Me. It was at that moment she knew, “this little girl is going to be an actress.” There is something to be said for a mother’s intuition, because the rest is history…

From the time she was in kindergarten, Kate knew she wanted to be an actress. She was enormously curious about other people’s lives — from the way that they spoke, to where they grew up, to how they chewed gum. Suffice to say, she was fascinated by human behavior.

After attending theater camp as a child and taking acting classes as an adolescent, Kate went on to study with the Meisner-based Baron/Brown Studio in Los Angeles, before eventually making her way to the esteemed London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). At the latter, she immersed herself in everything from Shakespeare, to stage combat, to clown. It remains one of the most enriching experiences of her life.

When her studies at LAMDA were complete, she continued working with various acting coaches in Los Angeles, while developing nuanced, complex characters of her own. One of these characters, “Trisha Donahue” became the inspiration for a feature length screenplay that Kate wrote, which she ultimately adapted into a short. The story of Trisha became Delivery Girl, and in the fall of 2018, Kate directed and starred in her “little engine that could”as she calls it, and to her delight, Delivery Girl was accepted into the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.

Since Sundance, Kate has continued to work for hire as a screenwriter and as an actress, whether it be polishing television pilots, or creating content of her own. As an actress, she most recently performed in Bryan Caldwell’s original play, One Way Ticket to Oregon, at The Blue Door Theater, and starred in Canadian filmmaker Dylan Paffe’s short, USED CHAIR FOR SALE, which was shot by Ana Franquesa-Solano (cinematographer of Golden Globe award winner, THE FAREWELL).

Kate is steadily working on developing projects around her myriad of characters, taking acting jobs as they arise, and coaching students from all around the world. She feels fortunate to love what she does and to be able to pursue her artistic passions, whether it is playing guitar, or attempting to master a new dialect. In the words of the late, great, and exceedingly talented Michael Kenneth Williams, “I am grateful for the gift of art... if nothing else, just for that.”