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Kate Chisholm
is a director, writer and performer. She has directed original works at
Columbia University, the Yale British Art Center, Alice's 4th Floor and
Towson University. For the Playwrights' Horizons School, she directed W.B.
Yeats's The Only Jealousy of Emer and John Glore's What She Found There.
For the Towson University Graduate Theater Program, she directed Kenneth
Koch's On Aesthetics, with an emphasis on ensemble movement. She has also directed a staged
reading of Heartfield, a new musical by Kenneth Allan Vega about the
life and work of the German photomontage artist, John Heartfield.
Kate
has an extensive performance background. Her favorite roles include Reno Sweeney
in Anything Goes; Anybody in West Side Story; Mary Jane Kelly in Whitechapel
(by Peter Foley and Carl Brush); and the Nursemaid in For Love, a Kabuki
and Noh-influenced adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, directed by Shozo
Sato. Kate has designed sets and costumes for Waiting for Godot and
Watchnight for the Berkeley Theater Project. She assisted in building masks
for Julie Taymor's production of The Green Bird.
As a writer, Kate won a Richard Rodgers Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for The Hidden Sky, a new musical that she wrote with her husband, composer and lyricist Peter Foley. The Hidden Sky had its world premiere in March 2000 at Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia, it was directed by Ben Levit. Kate has also received grants from the US/Nederlands Touring and Exchange Project and Towson University.
Kate holds a B.A. with honors in English from Yale University, and is currently completing an M.F.A. in Theatre at Towson University's Interdisciplinary Graduate Theater Program. She is committed to generating new works; particularly new music theatre.
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