Kate Drummond (she/her) is a Seattle-based director, intimacy/risk choreographer, and teaching artist.

Kate is a co-founder and Artistic Director of Dacha Theatre, and currently pursuing her MFA in Directing at the University of Washington.  

Kate makes art that makes us better people. She puts the messy contradictions of our lives onstage, seeking both to tell us about ourselves right now, and dream about who we could be. She asks her audiences and artists: are we okay with this? How can we treat each other better? How can we be more brave, more empathetic?

Dmitry Krymov says that theater is a “powerful tool to show the people magic, and tell them about themselves.” Kate believes in the magic of theater — that world-shifting change can happen in a single night, by sharing space and time and leaving with a little more than we came with.

Kate’s work makes complex things familiar and impossible things seem possible, as it carves space for us to experience big and scary feelings in praxis. Artists and audiences alike leave feeling like a part of something bigger than themselves, knowing that it matters that they are here, now, together.

Find out more about Dacha in this lovely Seattle Times write-up.

UPCOMING PROJECTS:

SDCF Directing Fellow on The Skin of Our Teeth, Seattle Rep, Autumn 2024

Directing Feathers, an original devised piece using theater to make humans better at coping with grief. UW School of Drama, Autumn 2024

Directing & Adapting The Winter’s Tale for the UW School of Drama, Winter 2025