Katherine Wilkinson

Katherine Wilkinson is a director and theatremaker based in Brooklyn. She is a Columbia School of the Arts Faculty member, Visiting Faculty at Texas Tech University, and the 2024-2026 Leader of the WP Directors Lab (20-22 Lab Alum). She is also a 2023 New Georges Audrey Resident, a 2022-2023 Orchard Project Greenhouse Lab member, and a recent Opera America Tobin Director-Designer Prize winner.

Katherine has developed work with The New Ohio (Ice Factory), HERE arts, La Jolla Playhouse (WOW Fest), New Georges, Theater Mu, Ars Nova, Bedlam, WP, MCC, Clubbed Thumb, Classical Theatre of Harlem, The Mercury Story, The Brick, Signature Theatre, Columbia Stages, ZAZ10TS Gallery, The Tank, Fusebox Festival, Corkscrew Festival, The Watermill Center, The VORTEX, Miami New Drama, The Oklahoma Contemporary, NOLA Fringe, Houston Fringe, among others.

Katherine has Associate/Assistant Directed for Anne Bogart, Sam Gold, Whitney White, JoAnne Akalaitis, Oliver Butler, and Andy Blankenbuehler.

Katherine has directed and taught at universities nationwide, including Columbia University, Harvard, Bates College, Juilliard, Bard College, UNC-Chapel Hill, Rutgers University, Arcadia University, Duke, SUNY Purchase, NYU, The University of Queensland (Australia), Texas Tech, and St. Edward’s.

Her work was most recently seen this August at the Edinburgh Fringe festival, where she directed Odds Are by Smita Hope Ruseell at The Assembly, one of the big four venues at the festival.

MFA Directing, Columbia University
BA Performance Studies, UNC Chapel Hill