Kate Merywyn Hawkes

Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Playwright and Acting Teacher

Sedona, Arizona

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About Kate

Originally from Australia, Kate holds degrees in Education, Counseling, and an MFA in Directing. Kate is a freelance theatre professional who has worked professionally in all aspects of theatre for over 40 years – including acting, directing, producing, writing, management and arts in healthcare. Prior to moving to Sedona, she taught in the theatre department of a liberal arts college for 18 years, founded an arts in healthcare company focusing on storytelling and performance, and was Artistic Associate at a professional theatre company in Oregon where she also developed a successful outreach program.

Kate is co-founder/Producing Artistic Director of Red Earth Theatre (with whom she produces monthly shows at Tlaquepaque as well as directing many productions over the last 8 years.

A playwright, her work includes Loplop and the Queen about Surrealist artists Max` Ernst and Dorothea Tanning; the award-winning Sky…Diamonds, exploring a family’s experience of Alzheimer’s; and Ungodly Behavior, a retelling of the Demeter/Persephone story; and in development, Walking On The Wings of Butterflies. (WOWB)

As a screenwriter she has had work accepted into numerous festivals and WOWG made it to Round 2 of the AFF this year. (A full list of her play sis available at )

She developed Performing Wellness ™ , is the author of Personal Magic- Conscious Empowerment Through Creativity & Spirit and offers workshops tailored for individuals or groups. She regularly facilitates arts workshops for veterans at the VA.

Kate has an unerring instinct and decades of experience in using the performing arts to bring people together in ways that surprise, delight and empower, inspiring community and building bridges.

Balancing all this creative endeavor is her passion for the outdoors. She provides opportunity for individuals to find balance and healing through facilitated interaction with her horses. A trail runner, the bounty of the red rocks of Sedona help keep her grounded, her mind clear and spirit high.

Email: kate@
Ph: 503-351-3331

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Walking On Butterfly Wings Budget: $5M - $10M | Fantasy ⋄ Drama A businessman in despair over his apocalyptic world meets an enigmatic young woman on an empty stage who turns pebbles into butterflies and challenges him to see the word as it is without running away, leading to a journey on the giant Earth-Butterfly to an ‘other’ realm where he comes face to face with death, meets his lost Child self and has to decide whether to return to this world or not.
Ungodly Behavior Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Other Persephone has been taken underground and her Mother Demeter is determined to get her back even if she kills the world to do so. In this contemporary retelling of the Greek myth, families are complicated, daughters are difficult and Mothers have to let go. Add Cassandra to the mix - who doesn’t know what epoch she is in but knows for sure the environment is in a dire state - and even the Chorus is exhausted. However, they rally with advice for managing the darkness and a vision for the future – for all of us.
Walking Close to The Edge Fantasy A young man on a solo hiking trip at the end of the summer vacation falls in beside an extraordinary old woman who teaches him a thing or two about taking risks and finding your wings as she swiftly leads the way up a forested back mountain road, revealing her true self at the top.
Sky...Diamonds Budget: $100K - $1M | Family ⋄ Drama From inside the mind of an eccentric, very smart Woodstock-era grandmother with advanced Alzheimer’s, we journey backwards ten years, piecing together her life-story as issues of family, values and communication surface while 3 generations grapple with her changing state. Funny, sharp and alarmingly direct Monique is a force to be reckoned with. -