Lighting Designer
PlayMakers: Crumbs from the Table of Joy, They Do Not Know Harlem, Edges of Time, Count, Mr. Joy, Trouble in Mind, Surviving Twin, A Raisin in the Sun, Clybourne Park, The Parchman Hour.
Broadway: Trouble in Mind.
Regional: American Conservatory Theatre, Arena Stage, Berkeley Repertory, Seattle Repertory, St. Louis Black Repertory, Alliance, Goodman, Steppenwolf, Baltimore Center Stage, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, New Federal Theatre, Mark Taper, Yale Repertory, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and People’s Light.
Education: In 2007 she was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre. She received her BFA from Howard University and her M.F.A. from the University of Michigan.
Other Credits: Kathy is the editor of seven anthologies focusing on women both nationally and internationally, including Selected Plays: Alice Childress. She is a senior editor of the Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance. Kathy is faculty Emerita at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2022 she received the New York City Henry Hewes Design Award. In 2016 she served as a theatre consultant for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture’s inaugural exhibition “Taking the Stage”.
Shows at PlayMakers
- A Raisin In the Sun
- Surviving Twin
- Edges of Time May 3 - 9, 2021
- Crumbs from the Table of Joy Sep 11 - 29, 2024
- They Do Not Know Harlem Mar 1 - 12, 2023
- Count
- Dot Nov 22 - Dec 10, 2017
- Clybourne Park
- Trouble in Mind
- The Parchman Hour