ABOUT

Kat Evasco is queer immigrant from the Philippines, and is an award-winning writer, theatermaker, filmmaker, and cultural strategist  committed to honoring and celebrating the experiences of immigrants, women and LGBTQ communities. Evasco was recently awarded the Gerbode Foundation Theater Awards (2022) and the Kenneth Rainin New & Experimental Works (NEW) Program Grant (2020) 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, Evasco supports artists to produce solo shows. Evasco’s 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. Most recently, she co-directed Rag Head: An American Story by Sundeep Morrison, winner of Best Drama at the 2022 United Solo Festival.

Prior to founding With You Productions, a narrative strategy company, Evasco served as the Sr. Program Director 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. 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 holds a BA in Asian American Studies from San Francisco State University. Evasco created her own artistic development plan that led her to study acting and performance with Anna Deveare Smith and playwriting with Cherríe Moraga and Luis Alfaro.