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  • Kate Billingsley- Communikate: Art Alive Opening night Baltimore improv festival July 27 2015
    This is my performance from the opening night of the 2015 Baltimore Improv Festival, July 27th, 2015. I improvised 3 different characters based upon the audiences' suggestions of Monet and Gauguin.

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About Katherine

Baltimore City
Kate Billingsley is a trilingual improvisational (French, Spanish, English) performer  with the Baltimore Improv Group.  In her funny, tender, genre-busting show, CommuniKate:Artalive!, she creates a series of improvised characters based upon an audience member's suggestion, slipping in historical information about artists and the worlds they lived in.   She has performed it in English at Chicago's Second City,and at a benefit performance for Baltimore’s NPR station.… more
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Write-up in the Baltimore Sun, weekend of shows at Theatre Project

Here is the link to the Baltimore Sun write-up of "CommuniKate: Artalive!" at the Baltimore Theater Project
the weekend of Friday, July 14th-Sunday, July 16th.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/bs-wk-arts-story-0714-story.html
  • CommuniKate: artalive! Saturday, July 15th, 2017, Baltimore Theatre Project
    This is my exerpt from my performance at the Baltimore Theater Project, on Saturday, July 15th, 2017. This is an improvised character: an Brooklyn Italian who gets discovered doing ballet.
  • CommuniKate: artalive! Saturday, July 15th, 2017, Baltimore Theatre Project
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    • Communikateing in French

    I traveled to France to learn French, and to become more culturally alive. 
    • Communikate: Art Alive in France
    • Kate's French Improv tournament in Paris
      Kate's French Improv tournament in Paris
      I participated in a cage match tournament in Paris, France.
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    • Communikateing in Spanish - The Harold and More

    The Harold is an improv format that requires heightening and quick comedic responses.  A group of 4-8 improvisers perform three distinct beats formed from three different comedic games. I performed this format in Sevilla, Spain with fellow performers. 
    • El Harold - Improv in Sevilla
      El Harold - Improv in Sevilla
      I performed with a group of Spanish speaking performers in Spain. We performed The Harold format.
    • Communikate: Art Alive in Sevilla
    • Micro Debut Teatro in Seville
      Micro Debut Teatro in Seville
      Program from a show at Micro Debut Teatro in Seville, Spain.
    • Before the show in Seville
      Before the show in Seville
    • CommuniKate:Artalive! in Spanish
      Improvised performance and improv workshop, March 2nd, 2017 Performing Arts Library of Andalucía, Seville, Spain This character is sorting through her grandmother's belongings, overcome with memories of her.
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    • Character-based improvisation

    These are examples of the characters that I have created based upon an audience members' favorite painter, and an article of clothing. 
    • Communikate: artalive! March 24th 2018
      This is a CommuniKate:Artalive! performance from March 24th, 2018, at the Magnet Theater in NYC. These 2 characters were improvised based upon an audience member's suggestion of Keith Haring.
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