Kate Whoriskey (Artistic Director) directed the Manhattan Theatre Club/Goodman Theatre world premiere of Ruined by Lynn Nottage, with whom she also collaborated on the premieres of Fabulation (Playwrights Horizons) and Intimate Apparel (South Coast Repertory). In New York, she has also directed Julia Cho’s The Piano Teacher at the Vineyard Theatre and the world premieres of Inked Baby by Christina Anderson at Playwrights Horizons; Massacre by José Rivera at the LAByrinth Theatre Company, of which she is a member; and Julia Cho’s The Last Tree in Antarctica at Ensemble Studio Theatre. She has directed The Tempest at Washington, DC’s Shakespeare Theatre; the world premieres of Noah Haidle’s Vigils and Regina Taylor’s Drowning Crow, The Rose Tattoo by Williams and Shaw’s Heartbreak House at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre; and the world premiere of The Piano Teacher, Calderon’s Life Is a Dream, Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle, Antigone by Sophocles and Sarah Ruhl’s Clean House at California’s South Coast Rep, where she was an Associate Artist. Other companies where she has directed include Theatre for a New Audience in New York, Baltimore Center Stage, Alaska’s Perseverance Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Sundance Theatre Lab, the Eugene O’Neill Center and Geva Theatre. She directed Ibsen’s The Master Builder at American Repertory Theatre shortly after receiving her graduate degree from the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University. She is a graduate of the NYU’s Experimental Theatre Wing, the recipient of several grants and fellowships, and has taught at Princeton University. Previously at Intiman, where she held the position of Associate Artist the TCG New Generations Program, she directed Ionesco’s The Chairs, Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea and Joe Penhall’s Blue/Orange. Her new production of The Miracle Worker is currently running on Broadway.