Katherine Wilkinson is a director, writer, educator and theatremaker based in Brooklyn. She is creating new worlds for queer futures and reimagining the classics.  

Katherine Wilkinson (she/they) makes physically adventurous, site-responsive performance that moves between classical texts and new work, including scripted plays, devised performance, and immersive projects. Her work is built through deep collaboration with ensembles and driven by a love of poetry, endurance, transformation, time travel, and how the everyday is layered into metaphor and spectacle. 

Katherine has directed, developed, and presented work with WP, Ars Nova, HERE arts, La Jolla Playhouse (WOW Fest), The New Ohio (Ice Factory), New Georges, Playmakers Rep, MCC, The Atlantic, Clubbed Thumb, Classical Theatre of Harlem, The Mercury Store, The Brick, Signature Theatre, ZAZ10TS Gallery, Fusebox Festival, The Watermill Center, The VORTEX, Theater Mu, Miami New Drama, The Oklahoma Contemporary, The Landford Wilson New Play Festival, among others. 

She is a Columbia University MFA School of the Arts Faculty member and the 24-26 & 26-28 Leader of the WP Directors Lab (Lab Alum). She is also a New Georges Affiliated Artist (Audrey Resident), an Orchard Project Greenhouse Lab Alum, a Susan Blackburn Prize nominee, and a recent winner of the Opera America Tobin Director-Designer Prize. Her production ODDS ARE by Smita Russell won the Excellence in Fringe award at the Edinburgh Fringe (2025) and Excellence in Performance award at the Prague Fringe (2026). 

Katherine has directed, taught, and facilitated 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. Katherine was a visiting professor and the Interim Head of Directing at Texas Tech University for the 25-26 school year. 

Katherine has served as Associate/Assistant Director to Anne Bogart, Sam Gold, Whitney White, JoAnne Akalaitis, Oliver Butler, and Andy Blankenbuehler.

From 2010-2013, Katherine lived in Brisbane, Australia, and worked as a resident director and teaching artist for Zen Zen Zo. During that time, Katherine taught Viewpoints, Suzuki, Butoh, Brechtian Aesthetics, and Devising to students and professional artists all over Queensland. 

After leaving Australia, Katherine moved to Austin, TX, where she founded Gale Theatre Company. Gale produced new ensemble-devised works that toured the Southwest from 2013-2018. During this time Katherine also directed, produced, and art directed music videos that premiered on Vice, Billboard, and Afropunk.

In 2023, Katherine co-founded DOUBLE FEATURE, a project dedicated to staging reimagined classics in intimate locations all over New York City. Katherine is the current Co-Artistic Director of the Marfa Intensive, a training program that convenes students and professional artists to study Viewpoints, Composition, and cross-cultural exchange in Marfa, TX.  The program has welcomed participants from universities across the United States as well as from Turkey and other international institutions.

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