“the greatest joy theatre has given to me is the joy of passing my love of the craft to a new generation of performers.”

Kate Brauer-Bell

cincinnati

COACH KATE

Kate Brauer-Bell has her BA magna cum laude in Drama with distinction in Acting Performance from Kenyon College and a certificate in classical theatre from BADA, where she learned under the instruction of many famed actors of the Royal Shakespeare Company, including Sheila Allen and Norman Ayrton, as well as The Times of London theatre critic, Benedict Nightingale. While a student at BADA, she appeared in a production of Noel Coward’s Sirocco at the Royal Court Theatre on London’s West End under the direction of Sean Mathias. Kate is proud to make the Queen City her theatre home, and was a company actor for many fledgling Cincinnati theatre groups in the late 20th century who made their homes at the Aronoff Center and the Carnegie, including StageFirst Cincinnati, Ovation Theatre Company, and Cincinnati Public Theatre. In the 2000s she worked as a reviewer of local theatrical and opera productions for Cincinnati CityBeat. She has appeared in television, print, and radio advertising, corporate videos, and short films. She has returned to theatre over the past two decades as a performer, director, dialect coach, and private acting coach. Since starting Acting Coaches on Call, Kate has focused primarily on running the operations of the business, but is always available to share an opinion or point you in the right coaching direction!

  • "I think the process of making anything is going as far afield as you can and then reconnecting to the original impulse. That’s the gig.”

    Lin-Manuel Miranda

  • "One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You’re eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you.”

    Meryl Streep

  • "Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That’s true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally nobody is acting like you.”

    Sanford Meisner