Kate Collins, M.F.A.-Instructor of Theatre 141R/V:  The Theatre Experience.

Kate Collins has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Acting from the State University of New York, College at Fredonia and a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre for Youth from Arizona State University (ASU).   Prior to arriving at BGSU in Fall 2006, Ms. Collins spent much of the previous seven years in Tempe and Phoenix, Arizona, as a graduate student and faculty associate, as well as a program coordinator and a contracted theatre artist at ASU.  During and prior to her time in Arizona, Kate has worked with the education departments of numerous professional theatre companies including: Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, OR; People's Light and Theatre Company near Philadelphia; Theatre for a New Audience and the George Street Playhouse in New York and New Jersey, respectively; and in 2005, she served as the Director of Education and Community Programs at the Intiman Theatre in Seattle. 

Focused primarily on community-based theatre and arts-based civic dialogue, Kate has spent much of her time at BGSU on service-learning courses and projects.  The most recent endeavor being the 6-credit Citizen Artist course she has developed where BGSU students work along with high school students in South Toledo exploring the concept of citizenship through a documentary theatre project. Previous projects directed by Collins in Arizona include, To Be American: A Work in Progress, developed as part of a course she created at ASU called the Community-based Arts Collaborative in Spring 2004.  The following year, Collins produced, directed and performed in another original, community-based theater piece called Sharing the Spotlight, which was performed and created along with Tempe and Phoenix social service professionals as a site-specific piece on the grounds of the Tempe City Hall.  

As an actress, Kate kept busy during her graduate program writing, developing and performing an autobiographical one-woman show, I Came to Live Out Loud.    Collins has toured Out Loud throughout Arizona as well as to national and international conferences including the 4th World Congress of IDEA (the Drama and Theatre Education Association) in Bergen, Norway in 2001. Kate continues to perform Out Loud when invited by universities or organizations around the US including the University of Denver and most recently, the North Eastern Pennsylvania Diversity Education Consortium.  During her spare time, Kate enjoys writing for the Community Arts Network online journal, dreaming up her next project, exercising, reading, watching movies, and going for walks in Bowling Green City Park with her partner, Christopher, and their beagle, Scout.

Contact:
katec@bgsu.edu
Room 010