Kat Evasco

award-winning writer, theatermaker, comedian and cultural strategist

Kat Evasco is an award-winning writer, theatermaker, comedian and cultural strategist committed to honoring and celebrating the experiences of immigrants, women and LGBTQ communities. In 2020, Kat was awarded the Kenneth Rainin New & Experimental Works (NEW) Program Grant towards the premiere of her new play Be Like Water produced by Brava Theater in San Francisco. Building on the success of her autobiographical one-woman show Mommy Queerest co-written by John Caldon, Kat supports artists to produce solo shows. Kat’s current solo theater projects include directing Prieto by Yosimar Reyes and Not My First Pandemic by Cesar Cadabes, which received Best One Man Show and All About Solo Critics Award at United Solo Festival 2021. She is a 2018 Lambda Literary Fellow in Playwriting and her works have been featured on Deadline, IndieWire, Vice, Shondaland, Bustle, The Advocate, Out Magazine, and NBC News Asian America. Kat is the founder and CEO of With You Productions and holds a BA in Asian American Studies from San Francisco State University. 

She served as Director of Artist Leadership at the Center for Cultural Power, leading the design and implementation of the organization’s core programs including the Disruptors Fellowship and the Creative Entrepreneur Series. She continues to collaborate with the Center for Cultural Power on national cultural strategy initiatives including the Reclaiming the Border Narrative Project, funded by the Ford Foundation. In 2014, she was invited to study with Anna Deveare Smith at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for a week-long intensive called Personal Narratives and Global Identities. Smith taught her that exploring our own personal narratives enables us to connect more deeply to the world. For the last 10 years, she deepened this practice and helped develop and produce five autobiographical solo shows, including collaborating and directing comedian Irene Tu in RIP Irene, and poet Jason Bayani in Locus of Control. Facilitating personal narrative storytelling workshops and helping others tell their stories in ways that recognize their own power is also a vital part of her artistic practice.