
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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Kate Scuffle welcomes Jason King Jones, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's new Artistic Director to talk about PSF's upcoming summer 2023 season, which is inspired by the theme "Brave New Worlds."
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Kate Scuffle speaks with Michelle Gallagher, Vice President of the Jim Thorpe Tourism Association about their upcoming 30th Annual Winterfest celebration, taking place from Feb. 17-19 over President's Day weekend.
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Kate Scuffle welcomes painter and award-winning photographer Hub Willson for a conversation about his upcoming one-man show, "Preserving the Lehigh Valley in Art,” on display at the Bethlehem Town Hall Rotunda Gallery from Jan. 8-Feb. 13.
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Kate Scuffle talks with Ben Roylance - reader, writer, educator, book collector, and the owner of one of the Valley’s newest independent bookstores, Apport Used Books in Emmaus.
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Kate Scuffle talks with Emma Ackerman, Touchstone Theatre General Manager and ensemble member, about the all-new 2022 edition of the Christmas City Follies.
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Telling the Stories of 'A Civil War Christmas' with Anne Lewis and Paris Crayton III | LV Arts SalonKate Scuffle welcomes Anne Lewis and Paris Crayton III from DeSales University to talk about their upcoming performance of A Civil War Christmas by Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel.
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Kate Scuffle welcomes Jill Dunn Jones and Valerie Reinhardt from the Pennsylvania Youth Theatre for a discussion about the organization's performances and the educational opportunities that have been offered for 37 years.
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Kate Scuffle welcomes Mary and David Serfass from The Snow Goose Gallery to talk about their upcoming 30th anniversary show, "What Goes Around: Part One."
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Kate Scuffle welcomes Bryan Zellmer, Director of the KU Presents! series at Kutztown University about their 2022-2023 season's many offerings from world-class artists and community collaborations.
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Kate Scuffle speaks with Denise McCormack from the Lehigh Valley Storytelling Guild about the organization’s numerous upcoming events, its story circles, and the benefits of learning to tell tales.