Kate Rigg is a renowned comedian, speaker, actor, and lead singer for the band "Slanty Eyed Mama" within the Asian American community.
Growing up in Toronto, Canada, Kate was a regular on the CBC teen news show "What's New?" providing movie reviews for teenagers, written by and performed by teenagers.
She also appeared in the CTV Drama "The Campbells" and won numerous awards for her writing and acting during her high school years.
Kate then attended college in Melbourne, Australia, at her father's alma mater, the University of Melbourne.
In Australia, she wrote and directed several plays outside of college and received the Comedy Festival Award at Melbourne University, as well as an Australia Council Grant for her first one-person show "m/Other/land", which was produced at La Mama Theater in Melbourne and subsequently at the Tarragon Theater in Toronto.
Kate was accepted into Australia's prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney but ultimately decided to attend the Juilliard School in New York, where she won the Interarts Award for inter-disciplinary work.
After Juilliard, Kate worked in several off-Broadway productions, including "Dogeaters" at the Public Theater, directed by Michael Greif, "The Vagina Monologues", directed by Joe Mantello, and several regional plays.
Kate has also built a stand-up and sketch comedy career parallel to her acting career, with a debut at Carolines on Broadway, where she developed the show "Kate's Chink-O-Rama", which toured nationally to great acclaim and did stints at The HBO Time Warner Workspace in L.A. and PSNBC in New York.
Her play "Birth of a nAsian" was invited to the Smithsonian Institute, and she wrote three plays while in various residencies at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
Kate continues to work in the Asian/Pacific Islander community as a comic and speaker between acting engagements.
