Name Kate Whoriskey Role Theatre Director | Children Rory Breaker | |
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Nominations Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Director Similar People Lynn Nottage, Daniel Breaker, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Peter Kaczorowski, Condola Rashad |
Directors 2009 with thomas kail mois s kaufman bartlett sher leigh silverman and kate whoriskey
Kate Whoriskey (born 1970) is a freelance theatre director.
Contents
- Directors 2009 with thomas kail mois s kaufman bartlett sher leigh silverman and kate whoriskey
- Another round with sweat in conversation with lynn nottage and kate whoriskey
- Personal life
- Professional career
- Directing credits
- Other work
- References

Another round with sweat in conversation with lynn nottage and kate whoriskey
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 University and 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. (Table can be sorted by clicking on box at top of each column). Sources: Internet Off-Broadway Database Internet Broadway Database American Theatre Wing
Other work

Other theatres where she has directed include:

In her career, she has also worked with writers Nilo Cruz, Michael Ondaatje, and Saïd Sayrafiezadeh.