Katherine Wilkinson is a director and theatremaker based in Brooklyn.

Katherine (she/they) has spent the last decade creating ensemble-driven plays and performances throughout the US and abroad. She is a 2023 New Georges Audrey Resident, 20-22 WP Lab Member, a 2022-2023 Orchard Project Greenhouse Lab member, a recent Opera America Tobin Director-Designer Prize winner, and a Columbia University School of the Arts faculty member.

Katherine creates physically adventurous work through a queer lens. She is often working on the very old and the very new and is fascinated by the pressing questions of now-ness and rigor in both.  Katherine is obsessed with poetry, endurance, transformation, everyday rituals, and treating audiences like dinner guests.

Katherine has developed work with The New Ohio (Ice Factory), La Jolla Playhouse (WOW Fest), New Georges, Ars Nova, Bedlam, WP, MCC, Clubbed Thumb, Classical Theatre of Harlem, 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. 

From 2011-2013, 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, 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 presented new ensemble-driven works that toured the Southwest from 2013-2017. 

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

Most recently, Katherine co-founded DOUBLE FEATURE with Mikhaela Mahony, a project dedicated to staging reimagined classics in intimate locations all over New York City.

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