Kate Mueth founded the award-winning Neo-Political Cowgirls eleven years ago to help fill the dearth of opportunities for and stories from the perspectives of women in our theater landscape. She conceives, choreographs, and directs new, site-specific dance theater that is “mind-bending, gorgeous, provocative, and wild” in execution. Kate is an Equity actor, a board member of The League of Professional Theatre Women, and co-founder/co-chair of The East Hampton Arts Council. Kate has worked as actor/director/choreographer with such luminaries as Blythe Danner, Tony Walton, Peter Boyle, Cathy Curtin, Heather Lind, Lizzie Larsen, and Tovah Feldshuh. She has performed at Lincoln Center, Bay Street Theater, and The John Drew Theater at Guild Hall among many others. She just closed a run in a post-punk Romeo and Juliet playing a ribald Nurse and choreographing popping stylized dance and movement for the adventurous interpretation at The John Drew Theater at Guild Hall. Favorite acting roles include Lady M, Varya, and Mrs. Wadhurst in Tonight at 8:30 with Blythe Danner. History of new works for NPC includes Wody Girtch Mama, Trojan Women Redux, ZIMA!, VOYEUR, EVE, Master Vibration, B(e)RD and countless one-offs. EVE, a 13-room, immersive experience, enjoyed an Off- Broadway run in the fall of 2015 at The Gym at Judson. VOYEUR made its European debut in Berlin in July of 2015. Kate directed a world-wide troupe of rock musicians in a bioethics examination rock opera, Playing God, in Helsinki in 2016, which had its American debut at The Danny Kaye Theater in New York and which she also directed. Last fall she worked in collaboration with the Finnish theater company Taiteen Sulattamo to create “100 Women,” a theater production bringing professional performers together with women dealing with mental illness. 100 Women premiered in Helsinki as part of Finland’s year-long centennial celebration in 2017. Her most recent theater production, ANDROMEDA, a “Myth for the masses” piece has been performed in the hills of Montauk out under the Hampton stars for the past two summers. Kate also has a lengthy biography in theater arts teaching.
For more on Kate Mueth, see: www.npcowgirls.org.
