Bio
Kate Eminger is a creative professional, culinary artist, and director specializing in new play development. Currently, she is the Associate Artistic Director for Rattlestick Theater in NYC. Before joining Rattlestick, she served as the Creative Director for SPACE on Ryder Farm, a non-profit artist residency and organic farm in the Hudson Valley. At SPACE she also served as a chef and kitchen manager for seven years, where she expanded the resident kitchen program and developed hundreds of recipes in collaboration with organic farmers. She currently cooks with two Supper Clubs in NYC, Stagionarsi and Choose Your Own Adventure. In 2021, she was a Culinary Resident at Marble House Project, where she created a nine-course tasting menu inspired by her fellow resident artists. Kate has developed and directed theater with institutions such as La Jolla Playhouse, Clubbed Thumb, Ars Nova, NYU, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and University of Rochester, among others. Kate holds an MFA in directing from The New School, where she was awarded the Doug Hughes Directing Scholarship. She is also a founding member of Tiedyen4biden (VOGUE, LATimes), a grassroots movement that raised $170,000 for Democratic campaigns during the 2020 election cycle.
www.keminger.com
