Kate Whoriskey is a prolific theater director whose work has been seen on Broadway, off-Broadway and regionally. On Broadway, she directed the Pulitzer Prize winning play, Sweat, by her frequent collaborator, Lynn Nottage, at Studio 54 and the revival of Miracle Worker at Circle in the Square. Off Broadway credits include most recently All the Natalie Portmans at MCC as well as Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World at Encores Off Center, Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive at Second Stage, Lynn Nottage’s Ruined at Manhattan Theatre Club (Pulitzer Prize Winner) & Fabulation and Inked Baby at Playwrights Horizons among others. She has directed acclaimed productions at theaters all across the country including the Goodman (Ruined, Vigils, Heartbreak House, The Rose Tattoo and Drowning Crow), the Geffen, South Coast Rep (Intimate Apparel, The Piano Teacher, Life is a Dream, Caucasian Chalk Circle, Antigone, and The Clean House), Sundance Theatre Lab, Shakespeare Theatre (The Tempest), the American Repertory Theatre (Master Builder), the Huntington, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Baltimore Center Stage, and Arena among others. Her opera direction has been seen at the Chatelet in Paris and Teatro Municipal in Brazil.  She has also taught at Princeton, NYU and UC Davis. Recently, she directed the New York Premiere of Lynn Nottage’s play Clyde’s, at Second Stage, for which she won a Drama League Award.