Story Creatures: With Kate Hilliard
Live on CIUT 89.5 FM
Airing Date: November 1, 2025
Host: Nicole Inica Hamilton
Featured Guest(s): Kate Hilliard
This week on Turn Out Radio, featured guest Kate Hilliard (Artistic Director of Arts Orillia) opens up about creating through movement, digital media, writing, and conversation. Tune in as Hilliard shares thoughts about the Toronto premiere Story Creatures at the AGO. A work which considers the anthropological consequences of a great melt, which also took place during the 2025 FFDN free programming.
About Kate Hilliard
Kate Hilliard creates through movement, digital media, writing, and conversation. Her performances closely examine themes of transformation and invites collaboration. Hilliard is the Artistic Director of Arts Orillia in Ontario, Canada, where she programs residencies and festivals to invite learning and community gatherings. She is on faculty at Toronto Metropolitan University, teaching dance and acting students in the areas of creation and producing. Hilliard’s work has been presented in North America and abroad. She studied Art History at the University of Toronto and holds an MFA in Creative Practice from the Transart Institute through Plymouth University in the UK. Hilliard lives with her family on the Black River in Washago.


