Biography

Kate was born in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and grew up in the nearby town of Jupiter. She attended Rollins College in Winter Park (a suburb of Orlando) where she directed Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "How I Learned to Drive" for Rollins's Second Stage series. An original play she wrote, "...and the camel checked in.", was also produced by the Rollins theatre department. In 2002, she received her Bachelor's degree in Theatre Arts. In 2006, she left Florida and moved to Los Angeles where she enrolled in Columbia College Hollywood film school in Tarzana. Three years later she collected her second Bachelor's degree (in Cinema-Television with an emphasis in Directing), graduating Magna Cum Laude. Her first major project, "Minette," was produced in her senior year at CCH, acting as her thesis film. In 2011, Kate directed the pilot for the webseries "Miracle Mile Girls", which was accepted and screened at the 2012 Cannes Short Film Corner. Also in 2012, Kate and her Pandering to Karma Productions completed the short film "Phoenix Song", which is based on an original TV series, "The Phoenix Chronicles", which Kate is currently developing. (February 2013)
- IMDb mini biography by: MJM5226