At home in both corporate and non-profit environments, Kate Powers has taught, coached or directed at the National Theatre in London, the Juilliard School, the University of Minnesota, at Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, PaineWebber, Cisco, and Novartis and, significantly, at Sing Sing Correctional Facility and Fishkill Correctional Facility.

Kate has been a facilitator, teacher and director with Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison, for more than a decade. She founded The Redeeming Time Project to teaching critical life skills to the incarcerated and the formerly incarcerated through the exploration of Shakespeare and the theatre. A Drama League Directing Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar in Shakespeare, Kate has fancied herself quite the Shakespearean smarty-pants ever since she earned her M.A. with Distinction at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. She is keenly interested in working to build a more humane, inclusive, and anti-racist American theatre.

Learn more at www.plainkate.com.