Kate Whoriskey

Lecturer in Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts

Kate Whoriskey is perhaps best known for directing the work of Lynn Nottage, a leading African American playwright, but she has also staged groundbreaking productions of Sophocles, Brecht, Ibsen, Shakespeare, Williams, Calderon, Shaw, and O’Neill at some of the country’s leading regional theaters, including the South Coast Rep (Costa Mesa, CA), the Arena Stage (Washington), the Goodman (Chicago), the Shakespeare Theater (DC), and the ART (Cambridge).