Kate Douglas

Biography

Kate Douglas is a writer, composer and performer.

Her work includes Against Women & Music! with Grace McLean (The Civilians), The Ninth Hour with Shayfer James (Met LiveArts), and The Apiary (O'Neill Playwrights Conference, 2022).

Her work has been presented by The Met Cloisters, Ancram Opera House, Little Island and The McKittrick Hotel and developed at New Victory Theater, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Rhinebeck Musicals, the Writer’s Colony at Goodspeed and the New Musicals Lab at the Ferguson Center.

She is an alumna of the Dramatist Guild Fellows, The Civilians R&D Group, The Orchard Project Greenhouse and Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project. 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, Kansas City Choir Boy starring Courtney Love and Todd Almond (Premiere and Tour) and Fernando Rubio’s Everything by my side (U.S. Premiere). Most recently, she attended L’Ecole Jacques LeCoq in Paris.

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.

Upcoming projects include The Lucky Few (concept album with Todd Almond) and a tour of The Ninth Hour.

She is currently on faculty at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts.