Kate Mueth

Affiliations and Awards: National Endowment for the Arts multi-year awardee; East Hampton Town; Suffolk County Omnibus grantee; New York State Council on the Arts grantee; ART/NY; League of Professional Theater Women Board of Directors; ChangeHampton Board of Directors; The Creative Process Board of Directors; LongHouse Reserve Performing Arts company in residence; Lincoln Center Arts Leadership forum; Jacob's Pillow: Curriculum In Motion; Montauk School; East Hampton Middle and High Schools; Hamptons Film Festival; Founder of the East Hampton Arts Council; East Hampton and Montauk Historical Societies, Watermill Center Fellow; Hamptons Shakespeare Festival; etc. 

Founded in 2007, The Neo-Political Cowgirls devise dance theater work; build and implement education outreach programs; and create community engagement efforts and impactful leadership initiatives. Called "crucial to our community" and "unapologetically, gorgeously bold," NPC has taken professional work to Berlin, Helsinki, Off-Broadway and regionally; and annually launch Main Stage, outdoors, site-specific and gallery pieces from home base on the East End of Long Island. Fundraise, grants writing, lead staff, manage budgets and contracts, hire artists and crew. 

NPC's education arm Making Space creates curriculum to address at-risk, youth and community needs. Rooted in theater, film and the visual arts, workshops and residencies establish a sense of belonging and empowerment to ignite conversations that build friendship, empathy and healthy coping mechanisms within our communities. 

Manager of annual curriculum with local schools, summer programming, and partner with The United Nations Plural Plus International Youth Film Festival. Manage hiring, curriculum, contracts and budgets. Represent the festival for community outreach and work closely with upwards of 120 volunteers per festival season. 

Founded and directed summer rep theater company performing in a historical barn from the 1600's. Supported by the East Hampton Historical Society - planned, implemented and directed each season consisting of two plays with Actors' Equity casts each summer. Designed, managed, and directed annual Haunted Immersive Walks at Mulford Farm with upwards of 40 performers and thousands of audience attendees. 

Performed and led as dance captain for NYCO's production MONODRAMAS in the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center

Arts curriculum creator for in-school residencies and workshop programs for school aged students and adult programs. Empathy-building, Language Arts, Conflict Resolution and Social Justice programs steeped in theater, dance and arts-based aesthetics. 

Curriculum in connecting physical dance and movement instruction with state standards in Education for youth-adults.

Rigorous training in the Lincoln Center Education Aesthetics and Teaching Artistry Principles. Mentored by Eric Booth and Jeanne Taylor. 

Two year intensive training program for development of professional actors. Full conservatory curriculum with Broadway directors, Juilliard Instructors, professional actors and coaches. 

Trained in the summer intensive, worked with mentor Susan Dibble: Head of Dance at Shakespeare & Company and Dean of Dance and Theater at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. Worked as office manager and Teaching Artist and Choreographer for the S&Co Young Company

Two years of study immersed in Theater practicums and productions. Full scholarship for position as in-house choreographer 

Theater training