I’m Kate Szekely: an actor and producer with more than a decade of experience bringing stories to life across theater, film, and radio.
Originally from Detroit, I moved to New York City at eighteen to chase the acting bug. I earned my BFA in Theatre with Honors from NYU Tisch and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, then spent the next twelve years in NYC, performing everywhere from off-Broadway to converted garages in Bushwick and producing international tours of independent theater. Onstage, I’ve played Nellie Bly in Nellie and the Women of Blackwell (BroadwayWorld's Best Immersive Production, 2021) and Ann Kelsey in In Their Footsteps (59E59, Edinburgh Fringe, OnStage! Festival Italy). Notable onscreen credits include Jagged Mind (Hulu), The Child They Hid (Lifetime), and was one of the faces for Visit New Orleans.
As a producer, I bring ambitious ideas into finished work. I was Senior Producer on Blacklisted, a UK psychological thriller made with Edinburgh-based Amygdala Productions, currently in post-production. I have been resident producer at Infinite Variety Productions since 2018, where I’ve led the NPR radio program In Their Footsteps to a 2025 Gracie Award. My latest IVP project, The Arena, is a documentary radio play about Hallie Flanagan and the Federal Theatre Project, recorded live in the Bronx this November for broadcast on WLIW-FM in spring 2027, with a full theatrical staging planned for fall 2027.
Through Epiphany Junkie, my Orlando-based production company, I produced four short films and raised over $100K in grants and crowdfunding. Halpate, a horror short rooted in Seminole and Taíno lore, premiered at the International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival and is now in feature development. I’m currently writing and starring in Tunnel Vision, a short about a mother who takes her child to the car wash as an asteroid bears down on Earth.
My career has orbited around one axiom: the best way to keep working as a creative is to make the work yourself. When there is vision, I meet it with action.
Off set, I’m is a NASM-certified Personal Trainer and Corrective Exercise Specialist, an 800-hour certified Jivamukti Yoga instructor, and a Brazilian jiu-jitsu blue belt. Above all, I’m a wife and mom, happiest cooking, hiking, and boating with my husband, son, and (very large) extended family.