Celise Kalke is a Dramaturg whose career has taken place is some of America's most exciting and rigorous theatres. She began her American career at the Juilliard School in New York, worked also at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and has had an artistic affiliations with Independent Art Here. She was the Resident Dramaturg at Court Theatre in Chicago, and the Director of the Literary Department at the Public Theatre. She has lived in Atlanta proudly working at the Alliance Theatre since 2005.
Celise has a teaching association with Actor's Express in Atlanta, and was an Associate Artist at Next Theatre in Chicago working with Jason Loewith. In the 1990s she lived in Prague, the Czech Republic, was a member of Misery Loves Company a Czech/English company, and worked with the Narodni Divadlo and Divadlo Pod Palmovkou while a student at DAMU, the Prague Theatre Academy.