Kate Bergstrom is a bi-coastal director + new work developer. Her work has been seen at Ars Nova, Rattlestick, REDCAT, UCLAlive!, Highways Performance Space, UCLA, La Mama Umbria, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Brown University, Curious Theatre Company, Theatre at Monmouth, LACMA and more. Founding Artistic Director of On The Verge Summer Repertory Company in Santa Barbara, Kate was named 2016 Central Coast BroadwayWorld.com’s Person to Watch. Featured projects include The Children’s Hour: a Queer Explosion (operetta -Granoff Center for the Arts), The Taming of the Shrew,  A Map of Virtue and Neva at Brown/Trinity, WHOLED at REDCAT and HOTBOX (also co-creator/performer) for Ars Nova’s Ant Fest, + the Explosions From the Other Canon project. Other: Three Days of Rain and Enchanted April, Theater at Monmouth, At the Table (West Coast premiere; Best Play 2017, Broadwayworld.com), Sometimes the Rain (Dorry Award for Best Play), Caridad Svich’s Red Bike -Rattlestick’s TheatreJam + The Wilbury Group NNPN Rolling World Premiere. Recent: FILL FILL FILL FILL FILL FILL by Steph Del Rosso with We the Women Collective (Tom Bradley Theater, LATC) in Los Angeles, Sky on Swings at Opera Philadelphia with Joanna Settle + QUAKE! At Culture Project NYC’s Director’s Lab.   As a professional actor, Kate’s work has ranged from Troilus and Cressida (OSF’s Play On!) to UCLALive!’s Medea with Annette Bening. BA: UCLA’s School of Theatre, Film and Television MFA: Brown/Trinity Directing ‘18. Kate also teaches intermedia directing at RISD + Performing the Internet with Todd Anderson at The New School. www.katebergstrom.com