I have a confession.
When I was younger, I used to think psychologists could read minds. So secretly, I wanted to be friends with one so that they could tell me what other people are thinking.
Turns out, psychologists don’t read minds. Their skill is to help you read your own mind.
And the key to this trick? Listening with delight and being able to tell a good story.
Want to put my theory to test? Come witness it live on Sunday, October 12th at Theater Wit, where we’ll be featuring Kat Pleviak.
Kat Pleviak is the founder and Artistic Director of Sea Beast Puppet Company and holds an MFA in Youth Theatre and Puppetry from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (2009). She is currently pursuing her second master in Clinical Psychology at Roosevelt University.
Her solo piece “Last Call” was featured in the 2025 Chicago International Puppetry Festival and the 2024 National Puppet Slam. Meanwhile her shadow sculpture was on display at the Evanston Arts Center in the art exhibit Migrations 2.0. Past productions she has developed include the Puppet Meltdown Puppet Slam, “The Shadow Puppet Conspiracy,” “The History of Light,” and “Méfiez-Vous de la Vache-Garou,” which won “Best in Show” at the Chicago Fringe Festival in 2013. Her work has been featured at the Field Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois Wesleyan University, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Lookingglass Theatre Company, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Skirball Cultural Center in California, and at numerous puppetry festivals in the US, Canada, and Australia.
Kat has been published multiple times in the Puppetry Journal and was a featured artist in Puppetry International’s “40 Under 40”. She currently works for the Puppeteers of America as the Membership Administrator. For more info visit https://www.seabeastpuppetry.com
October 12th: The Story Luck Show
🍽️ Potluck: 6:30pm CST
📖 Stories: 7:00pm CST
🎟️ Tickets: $20 — or Free with a shared dish!
📍 Theater Wit — 1229 W Belmont, Chicago
🌐 Streaming available if you’re tuning in from afar (and the show will be available to watch after, online).
Let us feed you stories. And snacks. See you there.
