Has appeared in Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as three different characters.
She was awarded the 1990 Joseph Jefferson Award Citation for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play for "Laughing Wild" at the Bailiwick Repertory Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
She was nominated for a 1991 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Supporting Role in a Play for "Candida" at the Court Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
She was nominated for a Chicago Emmy Award, for her work in PBS' 'Moment of Rage'.
As the original Harper in the First National Tour of "Angels in America," she won an LA Pride Award, and a Miami Carbonell Award.
She is playing Bella, opposite Judy Kaye in a critically-acclaimed production of "Lost in Yonkers" for Arizona Theatre Company. (April 2011)
Starring in New York as Carrie's fanatical mother in a
campy, off-Broadway production of Stephen King's "Carrie" (December 2006)
Kate just one the Best Performance Award in the New York York Shorts International Film Festival for her role of Mother in "Bad Mother.".