Kate Scuffle
Program HostKate Scuffle is an administrator, producer, educator, writer and artist in the non-profit/arts communities. Kate worked in theatre/arts admin in NYC and Philadelphia before coming to the Lehigh Valley, where she was Assistant to the Artistic Director at the Pennsylvania Stage Co. (Equity/LORT C), and co-founder and Executive Director of the award-winning Theatre Outlet.
As an actress, Kate has contributed to the development of new plays with her performances at Manhattan Theatre Source, Primary Stages, American Place Theatre, Working Theatre, and New Dramatists, in NYC; Town Hall Theatre and Nun’s Island in Galway, as well as at Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, PA Stage Co., Touchstone, Theatre Outlet, and Selkie Theatre.
Kate and late husband/collaborator George Miller spent several years in Ireland as Selkie Theatre, teaching, performing, and directing/producing new Irish work and contemporary American plays. Kate worked for the Irish Tourist Board, was a co-founder of Uachtar Arts Community Arts, and Editor of “Oughterard Magazine”, a regional magazine serving Connemara. She has returned often to Ireland as an Artist-in-Residence and has produced multiple Irish/American theatre collaborations and touring productions.
In the Valley, Kate has served as a Manager of Bethlehem’s Moravian Museum, and as a writer for Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce publications. Board service includes Godfrey Daniels, Mayfair, Open Space Gallery, WDIY CAB, South Side Film Festival, Celtic Classic /Education Committee, and PA Stage Company’s Outreach Advisory Board.
As producer of Selkie Theatre, she is also a PCA-rostered Teaching Artist. She has taught Artists Residencies for all ages, from students in the Allentown School District Foundation, to seniors at Bethlehem’s Rooney Building. She’s created/taught multidisciplinary arts education programs for Theatre Outlet and Selkie, in the US and Ireland, in partnership with organizations including the Allentown Art Museum, Wildlands Conservancy, Mayfair, Valley Youth House, and the City of Allentown Parks system.
Kate works with Touchstone Theatre’s educational programs and Festival UnBound, most recently creating a Community Arts Workshops series. You can hear Kate on WDIY as host of Lehigh Valley Arts Salon as well as her Celtic Cultural Minute series, which is featured on Celtic Faire.
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Kate Scuffle unwraps the 2nd Annual Allentown Film Festival, its exciting lineup, and its look at AI in film with festival founders Alan Younkin and Michael Schelp.
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Kate Scuffle welcomes Angela Fraleigh, a research-based painter whose new exhibit "Threaded with Moonlight" focuses on the long history of female labor and power.
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Kate Scuffle sits down with poet Barbara Crooker to talk about her newly-published collection titled "Slow Wreckage" that explores the travails of aging, society, and the environment.
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Kate Scuffle is joined by Jason Hedrington and Christopher Shorr, co-creators of Touchstone Theatre's upcoming HeadEye: The Musical, to talk about the out-of-this-world production.
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Kate Scuffle welcomes James DePietro of the Bethlehem Fine Arts Commission and glass artist Sue Berkenstock to discuss the upcoming GLASS WORKS exhibition at the Rotunda Gallery.
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Kate Scuffle talks with Dr. Jill Schennum about her new book 'As Goes Bethlehem: Steelworkers and the Restructuring of an Industrial Working Class,' a story of the last generation of American steelworkers.
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Kate Scuffle sits down with choreographer Sarah Carlson and composer Vernon J. Mobley to talk about their upcoming show "The Body Keeps the Score," which focuses on trauma and healing.
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The capital city of Scotland is the country's second most populous city and has been given the status of a World UNESCO Heritage Site for its history, art, literature, and beauty.
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Kate Scuffle welcomes Stephanie Powell Watts, an award-winning writer and co-founder of the Notations series, which is bringing an evening of conversation with noteworthy writers to the Ice House in Bethlehem.
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Kate Scuffle digs deep with photographer Ed Dougert and Keri Maxfield of the Nurture Nature Center about the upcoming photo exhibition "The Black Land: Remnants of the Once Great Anthracite Coal Industry of Northeast Pennsylvania."