Mad Swordsman Productions

Kate Stransky is a director, writer, and designer with a specialty for stop-motion animation, puppetry, and miniatures. Kate and her company Mad Swordsman Productions have worked on live-action feature films, animated films, commercials, and music videos as well as museum exhibits and theatre.

Kate teaches in the animation department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and in the film department at Columbia College where she teaches Stop Motion Animation, Production Design, and SFX.