Katherine Adamenko is a strength and movement specialist, actress, and writer based in New York City.  As a lifelong performing artist and exerciser, Katherine is passionate about bridging fitness, art, and personal growth to transform, inspire, encourage, and motivate clients, students, and audiences alike.  

Katherine is an elite personal trainer, Master Instructor, and intenSati group fitness instructor for Equinox and Can Do Fitness clubs. She serves as the fitness expert for Divabetic, a unique diabetes awareness organization dedicated to empowering women (and men) throughout the US. She is know to her clientelle simply as IRONKAT.

Katherine's latest fitness publication credits include technical writer for The intenSati Method, written by international fitness guru Patricia Moreno, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Sati Lifestyle newsletter for Moreno's Satilife.com. 

Katherine brings her talents and expertise into all of her work, drawing from her experience in the worlds of ballet and modern dance; traditional, musical, and experimental theatre; arts-education and management; bodybuilding and wholistic fitness; curating and publicity; and self-empowermenand leadership education.

As a professional actress, singer, and dancer, she has appeared in numerous regional and Off-Off Broadway theatrical and dance productions at the historic Barn Theater in Michigan to Obie award-winning Theatre for the New City in New York.  As an arts educator, Katherine has proudly worked with the AIDS Theater Project, the National Dance Institute, and numerous inner-city schools with special needs kids.

Influenced by a ballsy set of female American performance artists, a bunch of French feminist performance theorists, and  exposed to the best of British and world theater during her studies aborad, Katherine developed and has been presenting her unique brand of satirical, smart, and sexy cabaret performance art for over a decade under her own LADYPANTS Productions. She is also renown for her fiery and passionate physical theatre, site specific installations, performance poetry, and Butoh dances.  She performs throughout NYC, the West Coast, and in Europe in theatres, galleries, conferences, festivals, museums, and locations including but not limited to her refrigerator, closet, and bathtub.  

As a writer and curator, Katherine is deeply honored to have served as the Director of Exhibitions for the New York City Police Museum shortly after 9/11, curating, writing, and mounting numerous exhibitions honoring the exceptional men and women of the NYPD.    

Katherine holds a BA in Modern Dance and Joint Political Science/History from Rutgers University and an MA in Contemporary Theatre Practice from the University of Essex in England.