Kate Douglas is a writer, composer and performer.
Photo by Gali Kaner
Her work includes The Apiary (O’Neill Playwrights Conference, 2022), Against Women & Music! (with Grace McLean, The Civilians), Wonderland (Finalist, Jane Chambers Excellence in Feminist Playwriting Award), and The Ninth Hour (with Shayfer James, The Met Cloisters).
Her work has been developed at New York Stage & Film, New Victory Theater, the Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellows Program, SPACE on Ryder Farm, The Civilians R&D Group, Millay Arts, Rhinebeck Musicals, the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project, the Writer’s Colony at Goodspeed and the New Musicals Lab at the Ferguson Center.
This year, she was a finalist for the Princess Grace Award in Playwriting, a semi-finalist for Page 73’s Fellowship and joined the faculty at Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts.
She is a three-time Women of Note at the New York Musical Festival. She is currently a member of the BMI Musical Theatre Writing Workshops and signed with Kobalt Music Publishing.
She has over eight years of experience creating, writing and directing immersive, multidisciplinary events as Associate Artist at The McKittrick Hotel, home of Sleep No More, where she was also a performer.
Additional performance credits include Third Rail’s The Grand Paradise (original cast), Kansas City Choir Boy starring Courtney Love and Todd Almond (Premiere & Tour) and Fernando Rubio’s Everything by my side (U.S. & digital Premiere). Kate has been a featured performer at The McKittrick’s special events since 2012. She has collaborated with theater companies such as Theater Oobleck and Ume Group and also regularly performs in her own work, such as The Ninth Hour and The Imaginary Menagerie. She graduated from NYU Tisch with a BFA in Drama from the Experimental Theater Wing/Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She has studied with artists such as Erica Fae, Christopher Bayes, and most recently, at L’Ecole Jacques LeCoq.
As a teaching artist, she has trained with Musicians Without Borders, Gibney Dance, Lincoln Center Education and Ping Chong + Company. She regularly teaches master classes at the National Theatre Institute and is a fellow of the Juno Leadership Residency at The Omega Institute.
As a complement to her artistic practice, she studies bodywork and plants. She is an Ilan Lev Method practitioner and a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist. She is also a NY Master Naturalist, student herbalist and Citizen Tree Pruner, currently working towards her Horticulture Certificate Sustainable Garden Design with the New York Botanical Garden.