Kate Whoriskey
Introduction '''Kate Whoriskey''' (born 1970) is a freelance theatre director.
Personal life Whoriskey grew up in Acton, Massachusetts. She majored in theater at New York University (Experimental Theater Wing) (graduating in 1992) and in 1998 she completed a post-graduate program in directing from the American Repertory Theater's (A.R.T.) Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. Whoriskey is married to actor Daniel Breaker who has played Donkey in Shrek the Musical on Broadway. Whoriskey and Breaker have a son, named Rory, born in 2008.
Professional career After completing her graduate program at ART, she immediately worked on directing a play there, ''The Master Builder'' by Ibsen. She has been a visiting lecturer at Princeton Universityand an associate artist at South Coast Repertory in Orange County, California. She was briefly associated with Intiman Theatre in Seattle, in 2010 to 2011, prior to its closure due to cash flow problems.
Directing credits A partial list of Whoriskey's directing credits is in the table below.Sources: Internet Off-Broadway Database Internet Broadway Database American Theatre WingPlayAuthorTheaterYear and Notes ''Ruined''  Lynn Nottage  Goodman Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club  2008 ''Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine''  Lynn Nottage  Playwrights Horizons  2004 (world premiere) ''Intimate Apparel''  Lynn Nottage  South Coast Repertory  2003 (world premiere) ''The Piano Teacher''  Julia Cho  Vineyard Theatre  2007 (world premiere) ''Last Tree in Antarctica''  Julia Cho  Ensemble Studio Theatre  2007 ''Massacre''  José Rivera  LAByrinth Theater Company  2005 (world premiere) ''The Tempest''  William Shakespeare   Shakespeare Theatre Company  2005 ''Vigils'' Noah Haidle Goodman Theatre 2006 (world premiere) ''The Rose Tattoo''   Tennessee Williams   Goodman Theatre  2002 ''Heartbreak House''  George Bernard Shaw Goodman Theatre  2004 ''The Master Builder''  Henrik Ibsen  American Repertory Theater (ART)  1999 ''Blue/Orange''  Joe Penhall  Intiman Theatre  2003 ''The Lady from the Sea''  Henrik Ibsen  Intiman Theatre  2001 ''Macbeth''  William Shakespeare  California Shakespeare Theater  2002 ''Inked Baby''  Christina Anderson  Playwrights Horizons  2009 ''The Chairs''  Eugène Ionesco  Intiman Theatre  2000  ''Drowning Crow''  Regina Taylor  Goodman Theatre  2002 (world premiere) ''Life Is a Dream''  Pedro Calderón de la Barca  South Coast Repertory 2007 ''The Caucasian Chalk Circle''  Bertolt Brecht  South Coast Repertory  2005 ''Antigone''  Sophocles  South Coast Repertory 2004 ''The Clean House''  Sarah Ruhl  South Coast Repertory  2005  ''The Miracle Worker''  William Gibson (playwright)   Circle in the Square Theatre  2010 - Opening: Mar. 3. ''Ruined''  Lynn Nottage  Intiman Theatre 2010 ''How I Learned to Drive''  Paula Vogel  Second Stage Theater 2012  ''Sweat''  Lynn Nottage   Oregon Shakespeare Festival  2015 - World Premiere / 2016 - Public Theater / 2017 - Studio 54, Broadway  ''Tales From Red Vienna''  David Grimm   Manhattan Theatre Club  2014   ''Good People''  David Lindsay-Abaire   Huntington Theatre Company  2012
Other work Other theatres where she has directed include:* Theatre for a New Audience (New York), ''Oroonoko'', 2008* Center Stage (theater) (Baltimore, MD) (2003)* Perseverance Theatre (Alaska) (2000)* Actors Theatre of Louisville* Sundance Theatre Lab at the Sundance Institute, (Park City, UT), 2005* Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, (Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY) (2006)* The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center (Waterford, CT)* Geva Theatre Center (Rochester, NY).In her career, she has also worked with writers Nilo Cruz, Michael Ondaatje, and Saïd Sayrafiezadeh.
References
External links *  Intiman Theater website*  South Coast Repertory website*  Charlie Rose interview (about production of Ruined), July 14, 2009, 12 minute video