Kate Compton
Assistant Professor Of Performing Arts at Wichita State University
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolKate Compton is a multidisciplinary performing artist, educator, and creative technologist based in Chicago with over a decade of professional experience in theatre, film, commercials, and generative art. Currently an Assistant Professor of Performing Arts and a Northwestern MFA alum, she teaches improvisation, acting for camera, and creativity-focused courses that bridge play-based pedagogy with practical on-set skills. A seasoned improviser and sketch comedian trained at The Second City, she blends Viola Spolin and Meisner-inspired techniques to help students explore authentic performance through embodied practice. Beyond the stage, Kate runs a digital art brand and has applied her visual storytelling skills as a photographer, storyboard and set designer for projects with Disney, Lionsgate, and SXSW-featured documentaries. Her background teaching engineering students improv and developing casual-user generative art tools speaks to an uncommon mix of rigorous craft, playful experimentation, and technology-forward creativity. Colleagues and students know her for turning curious experiments into teachable moments that expand both artistic and technical literacies.
12 years of coding experience
Acting, Acting at John Rosenfeld StudiosImprovisation, Conservatory and Level A-E, Improvisation, Conservatory and Level A-E at The Second CityBFA, Theatre, Acting, BFA, Theatre, Acting at Michigan State UniversityMaster of Fine Arts - MFA, Acting, Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Acting at Northwestern UniversityEducation, Society, and Learning Program, Education, Society, and Learning Program at South Africa Study Abroad
Github Skills (7)
tracery10
peerjs10
grammar9
parser9
synchronization8
peer-to-peer7
javascript7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
galaxykate/OSSTA-Zine
Aug 2018 - Jan 2021
So you've created and Open-source Software Tool for Art: a helpful zine
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
helpfulopen-source-softwareartzine
galaxykate/paripassu
Apr 2022 - Jun 2022
Event-based synchronization across PeerJS
Contributions:26 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
peerjspeer-to-peersynchronizationevent-based
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