Kat Harris was the main stage manager at every Free Press Summer Fest, bringing the kind of seasoned competence that becomes indispensable when a festival gets difficult. A veteran stage manager from LD Systems, Kat was a hard-working badass with extraordinary managerial instincts: organized, decisive, unflappable, and able to make complicated stage operations move even when conditions were working against her. She had the rare ability to command a stage without creating unnecessary chaos, keeping artists, crews, schedules, and production realities moving in the same direction. Houston weather repeatedly tested the festival, and Kat navigated heat, rain, delays, and rapidly changing conditions like a champion. Her work ethic, judgment, and ability to solve problems under pressure made her one of the people the festival could simply rely on to make things happen.
Her role and the account above are stated to this archive by the paper's publisher; no years are established beyond the festival's run. A Kat Harris also appears in the archive's Day for Night 2017 production staffing list, and the paper's Day for Night retrospective thanks LD Systems among its partners; whether those records reflect the same engagement is not established here.
