Cate Cappelmann

Cate Cappelmann is proud to join the Shakespeare at Notre Dame team as General Manager. She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where she received a BA in American Studies and the Program of Liberal Studies. While a student at Notre Dame, she was a frequent collaborator with Shakespeare at Notre Dame, both spending her summers working on the administrative side of the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival and stage managing for Actors from the London Stage. She is also a proud alumna of the Not-So-Royal Shakespeare Company, where she directed Macbeth, and assistant directed Julius Caesar and The Taming of the Shrew. After graduating, she spent a year in service as an AmeriCorps member with the Robinson Shakespeare Company where she had the privilege of teaching Shakespeare and Drama to over 200 K-12 students each week in South Bend Public Schools and at the Robinson Community Learning Center. Cate loves to empower fellow artists to do their best work and is passionate about investigating the importance and power of Shakespeare in our community life.