Originally from Wisconsin, Kate Booth is now a Chicago-based actor, educator, and occasional fight director, who revels in theatre that comes from the soul.

Kate has been teaching stage combat through private lessons and one-off coaching sessions in Chicagoland and the greater Milwaukee area for several years. She is a company member with Open Gate Movement Arts, where she leads coordination for their Continuing Education workshop series. She is also a happy assistant to Fight Master Chuck Coyl at The Actors Gymnasium. 

2023-2024 Fight Direction credits include A Streetcar Named Desire (Paramount Theatre) and Mean Girls (University Playhouse of Texas A&M University: Commerce). She has also participated in the SAFD regional workshop circuit, attending The Winter Wonderland Workshop, The Tourist Trap, The Boil, and The Mentoring Advanced Combatants (MAC) intensive.

Fight direction credits prior to 2020 include... Accidental Death of a Black Motorist (The Conspirators),  Head Over Heels (Kokandy Productions), Peter and the Starcatcher (Northwestern University), Kiss Me, Kate (Elgin Community College), assisting Maureen Yasko on the fights for Babes with Blades' production Women of 4G, and assisting Geoff Coates with the fight direction for Oak Park Festival Theatre's The Fair Maid of the West. She directed a cast through two summers on 'By the Sword,' the street and stage fighting ensemble at the Bristol Renaissance Faire. She continually collaborates on all choreography in They Fight, an original show by the company To the Point, of which she is a founding member.  

Kate holds a B.F.A. in performance with an emphasis in acting from Northern Illinois University, which included a study abroad semester at the Moscow Art Theatre School.

During the 9-5, she is a Product Manager with Purchasing Platform, a prop-tech startup based in Chicago, IL.