Kate Buckley

Ms. Buckley is a founding member of Chicago Shakespeare Theatre and served as the Artistic Director of The Next Theatre in Evanston Illinois.  She has been a Guest Lecturer on Shakespeare at universities and arts organizations nationally and abroad, most notably at Charles University in Prague and Yale University.   She has been an adjunct faculty member at Barat College, Roosevelt University, DePaul University and Northwestern University. She received four Best Director nominations from the Joseph Jefferson Committee, her productions have won four consecutive Jefferson Awards for Best Ensemble and she has won two After Dark Awards for Outstanding Direction. She is a committee member of the Michael Merritt Award for Design Excellence. In 2006 she received a Distinguished Alumni Award from Aurora University. Directing Credits Include: The Taming of the Shrew (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Frozen (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre); Timon of Athens, Macbeth, Cymbeline (American Players Theatre); The Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing (Utah Shakespearean Festival); Little Women (Kansas City Repertory Theatre); Bad Dates & The Credeaux Canvas (Madison Repertory Theatre); Burn This (Renaissance Theatre Works); Much Ado About Nothing (Milwaukee Shakespeare Theatre); A Few Good Men  (Theatre at the Center); Last Night of Ballyhoo  (Peninsula Players Theatre); Marionette Macbeth (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre & New Victory Theatre, NY);  A Christmas Carol & Among The Thugs (Goodman Theatre); Talley’s Folly (Northlight Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, NEA Tour); To the Green Fields Beyond, My Own Stranger, Butley, The Beats, Niedecker  (Writer’s Theatre); The Laramie Project, Cherry Docs, The Incident, Are You Now or Have You Ever Been, Macbeth, Cardenio, (The Next Theatre) Upcoming Projects include: Glengarry Glen Ross (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre) and Julius Caesar (Utah Shakespearean Festival).

 

 

Contact Information

Kate Buckley
Assistant Professor - Acting/Directing
McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville , TN 37996

Phone: (865) 974-7302
E-mail: kbuckley@utk.edu