Sarah Kate’s acting roles have progressed along with her studies. In spring 2007, she took on the challenging lead role of Shen Te in Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Setzuan. Shen Te is a woman who invents an alter ego of a man, and so Sarah Kate essentially had to play both a male and a female character. She won the Dean’s Award and the Chancellor’s Award for her performance in this faculty-directed play.

Another rewarding experience for Sarah Kate was bringing Shakespeare to local schoolchildren as part of Shakespeare to Go, a program sponsored by UC Santa Cruz’s award-winning professional theater company Shakespeare Santa Cruz. This season’s Shakespeare to Go play was The Tempest, in which Sarah Kate played the lead role of Prospero, performing 48 shows at elementary, junior high, and high schools throughout the Santa Cruz area and reaching thousands of students.

Sarah Kate has received generous scholarship and financial support, including the Priscilla Newton Scholarship in both 2006 and 2007, and a 2007 American Association of University Women (AAUW) scholarship.

She is pictured inside a dressing room backstage at the UC Santa Cruz Theater Arts Center.