I create art and support artists in the hopes of healing myself and others. I ask challenging questions, lift veils and attempt to seek impossible answers.  I am on a lifelong quest into my most grotesque shadows in service of my work.

I believe in the power of theater and art to change the culture, and I believe strongly that it is the mindful artist’s responsibility to try and fail, and try again. I realize my work is sometimes controversial. I recognize it pokes and prods at the status quo. I am not interested in making the spectator comfortable. I am only interested in creating an experience that seeks to disrupt the privilege of comfort and stoke a flame of passion within us all.

I write about race, ancestral trauma, polyamory, sexuality, climate change and what it means to be alive today. My work on A Man of His Time and now American Rot, has proven to inspire real-life action in a historic communion.

As actor, I dive into characters that seem to have no floor to them. I am interested in the classics and the theatrical provocateurs of today, and I am hardly ever satisfied. I seek to express and release my deepest truths on the stage, and reveal myself mind, body and soul.

As teacher, I aim to evoke a sense of passion, play and sacrifice in my students. It is a great joy in my life to be able to teach what I love most and to see the work live in them so fully.

I am an artist. I find the work of the artist sacred, ancient and filled with the persistent longing for truth.

Kate Taney Billingsley