Kate Hoch, the founder and artistic director of Superstar Productions, began studying voice and guitar as a child and performed in musicals throughout her high school and college years in the Midwest. After moving to Massachusetts after college, Kate continued to act in community theater, performed at local children's events, and led her church folk group for nine years. She began directing children’s theater in Harvard, Mass., as a parent volunteer for the sixth grade play, which led to a position teaching music and drama at Oak Meadow Montessori School in Littleton, Mass., where she directed five musicals over a two-year period. In 2002, Kate created Superstar Productions to conduct musical theater workshops through the Harvard school system’s Spectrum after school enrichment program. Since then, Kate has produced and directed nearly 20 plays for students in grades four through eight during the regular school year and in summer camps.

An accomplished seamstress and costumer, Kate also designs all the costumes for Superstar’s shows and occasionally for other theater groups. She recently earned an award for "Outstanding Costume Design" at the Eastern Massachusetts Association of Community Theatre for her costumes in Harvard Community Theatre's production of The Mistress Cycles by Jenny Geary. Kate and her husband Jamie live in Westford, Mass., with their teenage son Andrew and their two college-age daughters, Allie and Sarah, who works with Superstar Productions on breaks from her studies in musical theater.