Kate Kohler Amory
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I work to create a brave space where the actor can begin to take risks—physically, emotionally, energetically—and, by leaping into the unknown, gain confidence, a creative voice, and physical expressivity.
Kate Kohler Amory joined the Conservatory in 2017 and is a professor of theater. Amory is a theater maker: director, actor, choreographer, dancer, and writer. Some of her directing/devising credits include Shakespeare & Company’s Comedy of Errors, THIS IS IT, and Henry VII, Part 2 (with Tina Packer); The Ridiculous Project’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Love Escape, The Birds, and Romeo and Juliet: A Space Oddity; Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s D.arc Water, Dog Act, Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, The Mermaid Hour: Remixed, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Salem State Theater’s Macbeth, Big Love, Ghosts of Troy, The Wolves, and Comedy of Errors; and Brandeis University’s: Hamlet (codirected).
Her acting credits include: Life of Spiders, Einstein’s Dreams (Holderness/Culture Project), Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing (Holderness/Lincoln Center’s Clark Theater), Refracting Miss Julie (OneArmRed, Brooklyn), The Yellow Wallpaper (The Living Theater), PERSONA (Women Center Stage Festival/Culture Project), As You Like It, Love’s Labor’s Lost (Shakespeare & Company), Sylvia (Salem Summer Theatre), Possible Worlds (Perishable Theater), and Much Ado About Nothing (New England Shakespeare Festival). She also has performed the solo shows Punk Rock Mother F--ker (UMass Amherst) and CounterThrust (Boulder Fringe Festival).
She earned her MFA in contemporary performance from Naropa University, her MA from Royal Academy of Dramatic Art/King’s College London, and her bachelor’s degree from Goldsmiths College at University of London. She is certified in somatic movement (DE-SMTT), Arnold Pure Movement Technique, and yoga instruction (CYT).
Highlights
- Founding Artistic Director of the Ridiculous Project
- Cofounder, MetaGirl Productions.
- Founding member of Holderness Theater Company and Convergences Theater Collective
- Former associate professor at Salem State University and teacher at Shakespeare & Company, Brandeis University, and University of Wisconsin.
Professional Awards and Recognitions
- Nomination for Best Ensemble Performance, Berkshire Theater Critics Awards for Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare & Company (2024)
- Selected for performance of THIS IS IT in the Arrow Street Arts Festival, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2024)
- Summer Performance Award, Salem Public Art Commissions for A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Ridiculous Project (2021)
- Merit Award for directing and cowriting D.arc Water, Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (2014)
- Merit Award for directing Big Love, Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (2013)
Merit Award for ensemble work and original creation of Ghosts of Troy, Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (2013)
Recent Engagements
- Excerpts from Pandemic Plays 20|20: Storytelling Studio (Ridiculous Project, 2020)—Writer and Director
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Boston Conservatory, 2019)—Director
- Macbeth (Salem State University Theatre, 2017)—Director