KATE LUMPKIN
Kate Lumpkin, CSA truly believes in the power of storytelling and storytellers. She is the Founder and Lead Casting Director at Kate Lumpkin Casting, CSA. Collectively, as a casting professional, she has worked on over 40 TV/Film productions and 80 theatrical productions in New York City and across the USA including shows at The Kennedy Center, The Actors Theatre of Louisville, The A.R.T, and many others. In addition to teaching workshops in New York and working as a guest artist at over 30 Colleges and Universities, she is also a private coach to clients all around the world and the Head of Education at The Broadway Collective. Her artistic passions include curating artistic families for challenging new works that are being created by groundbreaking creatives and holistically educating the next generation of artists.
Some of Kate’s selected regional and touring casting credits include the Broadway First National tour of Bandstand, Endlings at American Repertory Theater, West Side Story at The Kennedy Center, On The Town at The Kennedy Center, Beau at The Adirondack Theatre Festival, Evocation to Visible Appearance at Actors Theatre of Louisville, We Are Here at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Opium at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas , Absinthe at Caesars Palace of Las Vegas, A Christmas Carol 18', 19' at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Reunion '69 & Reunion '85 at the Newman Center. In New York, Kate has cast, OSCAR @ The Crown, We Are Here (dir. Steven Hoggett), Medusa, We Are The Tigers, Safeword, Afterglow, Cleopatra, The Bad Years, Eco Village, A Complicated Woman (dir. Jeff Calhoun), Boarders, Between The Bars, Unraveled, Letters to the President, Reunion '69, Single Rider, Diaspora, The Other Side of Paradise, Counting Sheep, Sitting Bull's Last Waltz, The Excavation of Mary Anning, Agent 355, Emma: A New Musical, Love In Hate Nation, Five Points, Hart Island, Eastbound, Interstate, Honey Dipped Apocalypse Girls, and Fefu and Her Friends. For a complete list of shows and casting history, please visit kate-lumpkin.com/casting.
In addition to casting and teaching, some of Kate’s life adventures have led her to work as the VP of Marketing and PR for a major private consulting firm, spend time working at an elementary school in Tanzania, work in development for National Geographic, and be a brand ambassador for numerous high end clothing and lifestyle companies. She was educated at Ithaca College, Indiana University, and The William Esper Studios in New York City – and enjoys continuously learning from her students and her fellow artists every day.