KATY EARLY
Equally at home in theatre and opera, Katy is a stage director and recent graduate of the MFA directing program at Brooklyn College. She makes politically relevant and personally resonant work that endeavors to shift our communities away from violence towards care. Starting in August of 2024, she will begin a two year visiting assistant professorship at Oberlin College teaching directing and acting.
She is thrilled to be working with collaborators in New York, New England, and beyond. Recent directing credits include a play with music by Bryce McClendon, The Smallest Sound in the Smallest Space (the cell theater, 2023); a site-specific production of La Traviata (MassOpera, 2021); a staged workshop production of Omar Najmi's new operatic setting of En la ardiente oscuridad (Mosesian Center for the Arts, 2019), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (her very own backyard in Queens, 2018).
With a particular interest in how folk music can be blended with theatre, she has trained with several European theater companies in France and Poland (Pantheatre, Teatr Zar, Song of the Goat) in recent years.
Katy's interest in directing for film and TV has led her to taking several film classes at the Feirstein School of Cinema at Brooklyn College, where she made her first short film HER KIND in the fall of 2023.
She holds bachelor's degrees in both theatre and vocal performance from Oberlin College & Conservatory and a MFA in directing from Brooklyn College.
Equally at home in theatre and opera, Katy is a stage director and recent graduate of the MFA directing program at Brooklyn College. She makes politically relevant and personally resonant work that endeavors to shift our communities away from violence towards care. Starting in August of 2024, she will begin a two year visiting assistant professorship at Oberlin College teaching directing and acting.
She is thrilled to be working with collaborators in New York, New England, and beyond. Recent directing credits include a play with music by Bryce McClendon, The Smallest Sound in the Smallest Space (the cell theater, 2023); a site-specific production of La Traviata (MassOpera, 2021); a staged workshop production of Omar Najmi's new operatic setting of En la ardiente oscuridad (Mosesian Center for the Arts, 2019), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (her very own backyard in Queens, 2018).
With a particular interest in how folk music can be blended with theatre, she has trained with several European theater companies in France and Poland (Pantheatre, Teatr Zar, Song of the Goat) in recent years.
Katy's interest in directing for film and TV has led her to taking several film classes at the Feirstein School of Cinema at Brooklyn College, where she made her first short film HER KIND in the fall of 2023.
She holds bachelor's degrees in both theatre and vocal performance from Oberlin College & Conservatory and a MFA in directing from Brooklyn College.