Kate Scuffle
Program HostAn actress, producer, writer and educator, Kate is the Managing Director of Selkie Theatre, and was the founding Executive Director of the award-winning Theatre Outlet. At The Outlet she produced several innovative performance series featuring new drama, music, dance and spoken word, as well as the Outlet’s Educational Outreach programs.
With Selkie, she produced new works in the USA including poet Peter Fallons’ adaptation of Tarry Flynn and community-created The Last Cast At Bethlehem Steel, as well as a string of successful premieres in Galway, Ireland (Broken Moon At Midnight, Til Kingdom Come, Goodwill, etc). Following on the success of Selkie’s own “Electric Cow: The Greenplay Festival” at Ilick’s Mill in Bethlehem (2011), she was delighted to travel to Co. Offaly, Ireland as a Guest Artist for “Bo Leitreach: The Greenplay Festival”, where she taught theatre workshops and directed several new Irish green-plays.
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 New York City; as well as at Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, PA Stage Co, and Theatre Outlet Recent performances include Selkie’s hit production of Howard Zinn’s Voices of a People’s History of the United States, the Selkie Seisiuns showcase of Brandon Lay’s Panther Piss, and a happy turn as an Irish mummer in the Selkie Strawboys Irish mumming troupe at Celtic Classic and other area festivals..
Kate and Selkie were fortunate to be resident in Ireland from 2006-09, where she taught theatre for ALâ Community Arts, Clann Oughterard, Uachtar Arts, and the Brothers of Charity. She also served as Editor of the monthly Oughterard Magazine, a popular regional tourism/local news publication.
Some of her more recent writing can be seen in the series of “INside Allentown” Guides published by the LV Chamber of Commerce. Kate is proud to serve on the Education Committee of the Celtic Cultural Alliance, and is looking forward to taking Selkie’s latest production, Mac Wellman’s “Terminal Hip”, to the Galway Fringe Festival after a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund the production. She and husband George Miller can be heard every other week on WDIY 88.1 Allentown radio as hosts of the “Lehigh Valley Arts Salon”.
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Bethlehem’s annual Celtic Classic & Highland Games fill the city with the music of bagpipes, an iconic instrument with a history even older than the Games themselves. -
Kate Scuffle sits down with Lorena Bravo and Kate Hughes, committee members for the Allentown Art Museum's upcoming fall fundraiser, "Cocktails & Collecting," which is returning for its 17th year on Oct. 7.
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It’s September, and that means that Bethlehem’s Celtic Classic is only a few weeks away. Naturally, there’ll be lots of glorious music… but there’ll be dancing, as well, much of it Scottish traditional dance, in all its many forms.
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Kate Scuffle sits down with Mary Wright, Touchstone Theatre's Education Director and director of the upcoming Festival UnBound, which will take place at venues throughout Bethlehem from Sept. 27-Oct. 1.
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Highland Games are a colorful, unique mix of sports, culture, and community. A celebration not only of all things Celtic, but especially of Scottish Highlands heritage and history.
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Kate Scuffle welcomes Alan Younkin and Michael Schelp, co-chairs of the Art in the Park festival, which is returning for its 48th year to Allentown's West Park on Sept. 16.
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Among the most powerful, romantic and dramatic of all the symbols of Scotland may just be the Highlanders' tartan and kilt.
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Kate Scuffle welcomes Mary Mulder from the Bethlehem Fine Arts Commission and pianist Eileen Wavrek Wescoe to talk about the upcoming Tribute to the Arts Award reception, taking place Sept. 12.
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The rich, magical folklore of the Celtic world is shaped in part by the landscapes of the Celtic countries. But the wild and windswept Scottish landscape, from the Highlands to the Western Isles, is home to some of the darkest and strangest creatures in any folklore.
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Kate Scuffle welcomes Ronald Demkee, conductor of The Allentown Band to talk about "For Ukraine: A Concert of Remembrance and Hope," presented by the band and Miller Symphony Hall on Aug. 20 at 3 p.m. to raise humanitarian relief funding.
