Kate Whoriskey is a freelance theatre director. She majored in theater at New York University (Experimental Theatre Wing) and in 1998 completed a post-graduate program in directing at the American Repertory Theatre's (A.R.T.) Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University. After completing her graduate program at ART, she immediately began working on directing a play, Ibsen's The Master Builder. She has been a visiting lecturer at Princeton University and an associate artist at the South Coast Repertory in Orange County, California. She was also previously connected with the Intiman Theatre in Seattle.