Kate Sullivan is a filmmaker unbound. Her work ranges from award-winning television to experimental theater to effervescent music videos. Regardless of medium, her work celebrates stories centered on women, ideally with music at the core, and always with a sense of fun. Her short film, The End of The Party, premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Festival in New York City. The film is a coming-of-age film about two teen girls who have never met and features the song “I miss you, I’m sorry” by Grammy-Nominated singer Gracie Abrams.
Kate is currently in the 2025/2026 Disney Entertainment Television Directing Program and the 2026 Ryan Murphy Half Initiative Directing Program. She recently shadowed prolific directors Jamie Babbit on Nobody Wants This (Netflix) Jason Ensler on Will Trent (ABC) and Tessa Blake on Station 19 (ABC). Kate directed her first documentary in 2024 called Shakespeare in the Courts about a bunch of misfit teenagers who are sent to an alternative sentencing program to put on a Shakespeare Play in Massachusetts.
In the theater space, Kate developed and directed the original musical, Nineteen, with Emmy-nominated rock band Tegan and Sara which premiered at the ACT theater in San Francisco. Kate is currently attached to direct a stage version of the film Can't Hardly Wait with rock music from the early 2000's. Her other theater work has been supported by New York Stage and Film, The Geffen, IAMA Theater Company, Rogue Machine, among many others.
Previously, Kate served as Head of Development for Thomas Kail's (Hamilton) production company Old 320 Sycamore and produced television shows such as Fosse/Verdon (FX), Up Here (Hulu), and We Were the Lucky Ones (Hulu). Kate also produced the Emmy-nominated feature film World's Best (Disney+).
Kate was raised in the tiny sea-side town of Marblehead, MA and attended St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH. Kate received her B.A. in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She currently resides in Los Angeles, CA.
Kate is repped at WME.