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

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.

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