KATHLEEN GREENFIELD – Co-Artistic Producer SNAFU/Co-Leader Atomic Vaudeville 

Kathleen (she/her/they/them) is an Scottish, Welsh, Irish and Pennsylvania Dutch settler who lives, collaborates and creates new work on the territories of the WSÁNEĆ, Lkwungen & Wyomilth people. Kathleen’s interests and experience are in site-specific outdoor performance, shadow and object puppetry, clown, audio art and storytelling. Kathleen has a BFA in Theatre from the University of Victoria, studied at the Banff Puppet Theatre Intensive in 2012 and is working towards a certificate in Bookkeeping from Camosun College.  

In 2013, Kathleen joined SNAFU Dance Theatre as Co-Artistic Director and has directed the premiere and workshop productions of many new works including Calling Home: Stories from Military Families (SNAFU, Belfry Incubator), Little Orange Man , Kitt & Jane and Interstellar Elder (SNAFU). In 2015, Kathleen co-directed and produced  the smash-hit-remount of Lieutenant Nun, a site-specific spectacle where the audience moves through an old battlement, pageant style.  2023 – 2025, Kathleen has been collaborating with a variety of communities & professional artists to produce New Earth Bandits, a choose-your-own-adventure spectacle at a Park in Esquimalt, BC.  

From 2014 – 2019, Kathleen was a teacher and head administrator to students aged 4 to 17 at Kate Rubin Drama/Theatre SKAM. Kathleen has worked with  William Head on Stage Prison Theatre as a facilitator, workshop leader, assistant director, projection designer, writer and/or performer for Time Waits for No One: A Prison Play (2014) and HERE: A Captive Odyssey (2015) and The Crossroads: A Prison Cabaret (2018) alongside a team of incarcerated participants and outside artists. Kathleen directed and devised Sleeping Giants (2016) and The Emerald City Project (2019).  

Kathleen also teaches play-building to people of all ages and abilities. In the summer of 2018, Kathleen directed  a rotating double cast of twenty teen performers in a site-specific performance of Concord Floral by Jordan Tannahill. This play was staged in an abandoned Department Store in Downtown Victoria and produced by SKAM. In 2019, Kathleen partnered with participants with diverse abilities at Garth Homer Society to create our very own immersive adaptation of The Jungle Book with participant-built puppets.  

Kathleen Greenfield (they/she)