Kate Valk
Kate Valk | |
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| Born | March 6, 1957 Tisch School of the Arts, New York University |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, performing artist |
| Years active | 1979–present |
| Known for | Founding member of The Wooster Group |
Kate Valk (born March 6, 1957) is a founding member of
In 2003 she was awarded a
Early life
Kate Valk was born on March 7, 1956, in
Theatre career
After she finished college, she turned back to theatre and went to the Wooster Group in search of a job. She had worked as a seamstress during her time in the theatre, so starting in 1979, Elizabeth LeCompte hired her to work as a seamstress and for general help with production, including making props and transcribing. Her first role with the Wooster Group as an actress was in Route 1 & 9, an adaption of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town staged in 1981. She has appeared in every Wooster Group show since. She has also worked in film, appearing most notably in The Manchurian Candidate as Agent Volk. In recent years, she has founded two different arts education programs. One of them is an in-school theatre curriculum at Dr. Sun Yat Sen Middle School in Chinatown, founded in 1992. The other arts education program is a free, three-week summer program for high school students, called the Wooster Group’s Summer Institute, founded in 1997.
Stage credits
Her stage credits include:
The Hairy Ape as Mildred Douglas, 1997
Hamlet as Gertrude/Ophelia, 2007, at St. Ann’s Warehouse
The Emperor Jones as Brutus Jones, 2009, at Owen Bruner Goodman Theatre
North Atlantic as performer, 2010, at The Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater
Vieux Carré as performer, 2010-2011, at The Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater
Early Plays as performer, 2012, at
Cry, Trojans! as performer, 2014, at
The Room as performer, 2015-2016, at The Performing Garage
Film credits
Her film credits include:
The Golden Boat as Amelia Lopes (1990)
The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez as Sue (1991)
Dead Flowers Alice (1992)
Fresh Kill (1994)
The Manchurian Candidate as Agent Volk (2004)
Utopians as Dr. L