
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 looks at this year's NCC East40, with Northampton Community College's Rachael Gorchov and the season's artists in residence.
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Kate Scuffle explores the Goschenhoppen Historians and Hellertown Historical Society and their methods of using storytelling to bring the past to life.
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Kate Scuffle talks with August Kiss Fegley and Katie Kunkel, the creators of the new play Saloon Girls, which is approaching its run at the world-famous Fringe Fest.
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Kate Scuffle welcomes Ashlee Deutsch and Rebecca Piper of the Nazareth Center for the Arts to talk about the non-profit arts hub and its offerings.
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Kate Scuffle sits down with Ilhan Citak and Alex Japha of the Lehigh University Libraries to talk about their special collection of history from Godfrey Daniels.
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Kate Scuffle is joined by Tom Yuracka and Mar Haeussler of the West Park Civic Association to talk about their upcoming House Tour that gives a look inside Allentown's historic homes.
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Kate Scuffle welcomes Brett Oliviera and Lydia Walker of NCC's Bill Mutimer Memorial Summer Theatre Series to talk about this season's thrilling lineup.
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Kate Scuffle sits down with Bridget George and Doug Roysdon to talk about their new film Rooted, telling the story of a handful of Bethlehem's longtime artists.
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Kate Scuffle is joined by Jeff Vaclavik of the Southside Film Festival to talk about the upcoming 21st annual event and its exciting lineup of films.
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The flood of Irish immigrants into America indirectly led to the American popular music publishing industry known as Tin Pan Alley.