Who We Are
Co-Founders Rachel Sussman (left) and Katherine M. Carter (right) in 2016
Katherine M. Carter (Co-Founding Artistic Director) is a stage director, and the co-founding Artist Director of the MITTEN Lab. Recent: Canadian Opera Company, Houston Grand Opera, New School for Drama, Joe’s Pub. Previous: Houston Grand Opera, Westport Country Playhouse, Boston Lyric Opera, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, New York Musical Festival, On Site Opera, The Little Orchestra Society, 3LD, NYU, and Wolf Trap Opera. Fellowships: New Georges, The Drama League, and Playwrights Horizons. 2019 Honored Finalist for Women in the Arts & Media Coalition with playwright Jacqueline Goldfinger. Upcoming: Wolf Trap Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and Carnegie Mellon University. www.KatherineMCarter.com
Rachel Sussman (Co-Founding Artistic Director), a native Michigander, is a Tony Award-nominated producer committed to cultivating dynamic, inclusive theatrical work through collaboration. She has worked with such companies as Audible Theater, The Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, Second Stage Theatre, RKO Stage, and Lincoln Center's American Songbook. Producing credits include: Heidi Schreck's Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award-nominated play, What the Constitution Means to Me (Broadway/National Tour), the Obie Award-winning production of The Woodsman (Off-Broadway), and Eh Dah? Questions for My Father (Next Door at NYTW). In development: Suffragist by Shaina Taub, Devotion by Mark Sonnenblick. A past Women's Project Lab Time Warner Foundation Fellow, Rachel was the recipient of the 2019 Geraldine Stutz T. Fellowship in Creative Producing, founded by Hal Prince in conjunction with Columbia University. She is a graduate of the Commercial Theater Institute and a University Honors Scholar alumna of NYU Tisch. www.rachel-sussman.coman