hey y’all

I'm Katie.

I'm a performance & theater artist, director, writer, deviser, and educator.

Raised all over the American South.
From many places, but mostly Asheville, North Carolina.
Based in Brooklyn, New York since 2015.

I make performances, poems, and public happenings about :: Appalachia & the American South, Outer Space, leftist politics, nostalgic technology, sex, queerness, holiness, punks, teenagehood, sweat, love and rage, and lots of other things.

I hold an MA in Arts Politics from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and a BA in Dramatic Art from UNC Chapel Hill. I’ve learned just as much from the dance floor and getting lost in the woods.

I make plays, performance art, and poems that feel like:

That one warehouse party above a yellow school bus depot before Bushwick was ~Bushwick~ where you climbed the fire escape, passed strangers kissing, ascending to the roof where you swear you saw your dead friend and you swear he was dancing.

A barn dance that you snuck out of your mom’s house to go to, where somebody’s friend’s brother brought the keg, where you hopped in the cool girl’s wood-panel volkswagen, where you ate moonshine peaches for the first time, where you got lost and talked to animals in the dark woods.

The game of spin-the-bottle that started it all.

Piercing your friend’s ear and the safety pin gets stuck mid-flesh, what do we do? Don’t freak out, breathe.

Breathe.

Okay. One, two, three. 

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Photos by Emma Pilkington Mead @theemmaexperience