Kate Rigg

Kate Rigg is well known in the Asian American community as a comedian, speaker, actor and lead singer for the band "Slanty Eyed Mama". She grew up in Toronto Canada where was a regular on the CBC teen news show "What's New?" giving movie reviews for teenagers by teenagers. She also appeared in the CTV Drama The Campbells and throughout HighSchool won awards for writing and acting before heading to college in Melbourne Australia at her fathers alma mater The University of Melbourne. In Australia, she wrote and directed several plays outside of college and received the Comedy Festival Award at Melbourne University as well as an Australia Council Grant for her first one person show "m/Other/land" which was produced at La Mama Theater in Melbourne and subsequently at the Tarragon Theater in Toronto. She was accepted into Australia's prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney but ultimately decided to attend the Juilliard School in New York where she won the Interarts Award fo