Kate is a singer/songwriter, writer, stage & screen actress, voiceover artist, director, filmmaker, producer, and creator.
Her writing and art documenting her love of birds under the alias inspirationalcrow is a passion project that has reached millions on social media. She hopes to use this platform to inspire others to get in touch with nature and wildlife in their neighborhood.
Live music performance with the Philosopher’s Stone Poets at Gravlax | Culver City/Mar Vista border, Los Angeles
In Los Angeles, she shot a co-star role on the CBS pilot The Get, a 1-hour drama about a team of investigative journalists from Bridget Carpenter (Friday Night Lights, 11.22.63), directed by James Strong, with Amy Brenneman and Brad Garrett. Kate was so excited to launch the snapchat and create video content for The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media and help share what happens behind the scenes at empowering events, such as: The Global Symposium on Gender in Media held at Google Venice, Fox: Women in Sports, The Eagle Huntress screening hosted by Sony Pictures Classics, CBS Entertainment Diversity Event: Inclusion Beyond Acceptance.
As a singer-songwriter, she has performed in Nashville, finished up a residency at Molly Malone's in Los Angeles, performed in San Francisco, at Gravlax in Culver City and the Mar Vista ArtWalk, and live on Geek & Sundry’s Twitch channel. You can listen to her single ‘aphrodite’ here.
Kate’s poetry was honored by the City of Los Angeles and displayed on Venice Blvd. to help improve the pedestrian experience as part of the Downtown Mar Vista Beautification Project with the Department of Transportation. Her first play, which premiered at George Mason University’s First Light Festival when she was 16, is in the library archives of GMU’s Theater of the First Amendment in Fairfax, Virginia. She is currently working on several writing projects.
Kate at YouTube Space | Los Angeles, California
Under her previous alias of weasleysweaters (@katebonavich) in the 2010s, she created dozens of music videos, ranging from Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, and Disney themed musical parodies, to short-form sketches, and original songs. She was the writer/director/editor/producer of her music videos. Her work has been featured in publications such as The Los Angeles Times, Billboard, TIME, Entertainment Weekly, A.V. Club, Seventeen, Elle, HelloGiggles, refinery29, Buzzfeed, Sweety High, and internationally with Dolly Magazine and Cosmopolitan in Malaysia. Her TikTok videos have been featured on the comedy platform WhoHaHa. Her Harry Potter parody to Pitch Perfect’s Cups/When I’m Gone led to her appearance as a percussionist cupper in the official Pitch Perfect Cups music video with Anna Kendrick, directed by Jason Moore.
It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play at Breckenridge Backstage Theatre | Breckenridge, Colorado
She has appeared onstage in classical + contemporary theatre productions in New York, Maryland, Virginia, Colorado, and Los Angeles. She recently appeared in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play’ as Mary Bailey/Sally Applewhite during the holiday season with Breckenridge Backstage Theatre in Breckenridge, Colorado. She appeared in Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company’s productions of Bloomsday, the Irish romance by Steven Dietz as Caithleen, The Realistic Joneses by Will Eno as Pony Jones (Denver Westword Best in Theatre 2019 - Best Actress in a Comedy Finalist for her portrayal of Pony Jones), and The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe as #46 (Outstanding Ensemble Nominee, Colorado Theatre Guild, Henry Awards).
With The New American Theatre Company in Los Angeles, she appeared as Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Jack Stehlin with dramaturg Alfred Molina at The Odyssey Theatre in West Los Angeles. She starred in and c0-produced the short film Emilia with Angela Gulner & director Hugo Pierre Martin (Official Selection at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s “Shakespeare on Film” festival in Stratford-upon-Avon). The film is a retelling of the Othello story from an alternate perspective using Shakespeare’s text which split Emilia’s words into two characters - Kate’s character went on the journey of leaving an abusive marriage.
In her free time, she loves surfing, birdwatching, practicing yoga (pursuing her 200 HR teacher training) and martial arts (Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu).
OTHER WORK
Recently, she worked for the American Geophysical Union in Publications of the latest environmental research in Washington D.C. She currently works as a Specialist for the American Institute of Architects, creating educational video content.
She served as the manager of marketing & communications for Wayfarer Studios, a film studio dedicated to creating projects that are agents for social change. She created content for The Six Feet Apart Experiment and Clouds on Disney+. She managed the launch of The Man Enough Podcast and the book, Man Enough: Undefining my Masculinity by Justin Baldoni.
She has worked as a drama therapist & music/arts counselor, website designer, video editor, legislative researcher, digital & brand strategist, and content writer for various social movements, non-profits, and campaigns.
She worked with the Students Not Suspects movement in Los Angeles Unified School District to help get a racially discriminatory policy changed by the school board. As an intern on the Equal Means Equal documentary, she worked for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment with the ERA Education Project & Heroica Foundation. She began working as an intern at The Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London, U.K., launching their Twitter account and assisting with their Shakespeare education programming.
EDUCATION
Ithaca College, B.A. Drama, Cum Laude; John B. Harcourt Writing Scholarship, National Foundation for the Arts YoungArts Award & Scholarship in Play/Script Writing
Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, National Theater Institute; St. Petersburg Theatre Arts Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia - Certificate
