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Kate Burton, a 1979 Russian Studies/European History graduate of Brown, was a trustee from 2009-2015 serving on the Committees on Campus Life and Facilities and Campus Planning.  She is an actress, director and a professor of the practice at the USC School of Dramatic Arts.  Best known for her Emmy nominated work on Grey's Anatomy and Scandal, she will soon be in the film, Where'd You Go, Bernadette, starring Cate Blanchett and has been seen in Big Trouble in Little China, Unfaithful, Ice Storm, Celebrity, Liberal Arts, Rescue Me,  2 Days in NY and 127 Hours.  On Broadway she has been Tony nominated for Hedda Gabler, The Elephant Man and The Constant Wife and, most recently, played opposite Kevin Kline in Present Laughter and as Prospera in The Tempest at the The Old Globe. She is currently in Coriolanus in NYC. She is a trustee of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, an ambassador for the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS foundation and serves as a national councillor of the Actor's Equity Association. She directs at the LA Phil and USC. An MFA graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Burton received an honorary doctorate from Brown in 2007 and a Pell lifetime achievement award in 2013. She gives master classes at the Brown MFA program and is the co-chair of the Brown Arts Initiative.