A young girl comes to terms with her father's madness as she goes on a quest In Search of a Better Life with Elvis. The voice of Africa has called Jezzie to Memphis, but she thinks the voice meant Tennessee when it really meant Egypt. So Jezzie steals her mother's Honda and her father's ashes and sets off on a mission to learn to play guitar so she can lay her father to rest in Memphis by giving him a gift of his favorite Elvis song. Only trouble is she has no money, no friends, no intention of singing, and she wasn't listening when the voice said "Egypt".

Kato is a playwright, artist, and director from Connecticut.

She is a 2003 Ensemble Studio Theatre New Voices Fellow, where her play FENCERS was performed as a concert reading directed by Will Pomerantz. Joan's Voices received a Spirit of Broadway Award for Best New Play. The two-hander Leak has received the 2003 Robert Lehan Playwriting Award, Caliban Rex was named a finalist in the '03 Kernodle Playwriting Competition, A Yankee Trader was a finalist in the Seven Devils Conference, Couchfullaluv was produced on Nantucket, and Swimming in the Ocean was a finalist in the Turnip 15-Minute Play Fest.

In 2004, she directed the short digital film The Snowman by Nick Checker.
In October of 2004, The Beast Festival in NYC presented BULL, and her off-beat love-story Girls. In Boys Pants was published this past fall in an edition of the Lodestar Quarterly (www.lodestarquarterly.com), and a monologue from Kato's play, For Want of Lobster will be included in an upcoming collection of Best Monologues from Smith and Kraus. Visit on the web at http://members.aol.com/katomcnick.