Kate Posey

Stage Manager and Production Coordinator

Kate Posey (she / they) is an operatic stage director, theater producer, and arts administrator whose varied work focuses on imagining a better world through art. Kate holds a BM in Applied Voice (Baylor University, 2015) and an MM in Voice Performance (the University of Washington, 2017). She is the Operations and Administrative Associate at Seattle Pro Musica, and serves as Vice President of the Board of Directors for Lowbrow Opera Collective, where she also frequently stage directs and serves on the New Works Search Committee. Notable performance credits include the titular role of La Calisto (UW, 2015), Orphée in Orphée et Eurydice (UW and Pacific MusicWorks, 2016), Judith in Red Lake (Deseret Experimental Opera Company, 2016), Genovieffa in Suor Angelica (Seattle Modern Opera Company, 2019), Siri in #adulting, a new opera (LOC, 2019 & 2020), and Gretta in Breakfast (LOC, 2020). Notable stage directing credits include #adulting, a new opera (LOC, 2019 & 2020), WINDOWS (LOC 2021), Amahl and the Night Visitors (Music on Site, Inc., 2022), #adulting2, here we go again (LOC 2022), Achilles & Patroclus, part of LOC’s 2023 production of MORE THAN FRIENDS: a triptych on queer love through the ages, and Sweets by Kate (LOC 2024). Kate is currently working on an original adaptation of Die Fledermaus that will premiere at Kitsap Opera in fall of 2026.