CURRENT/RECENT PROJECTS
Latest productions, presentations, and publications
NEWS: Katie recently earned the Pan-American Vocology Association's Recognized Vocologist (PAVA-RV) credential
PAVA-RV is a designation designed "to acknowledge professional engagement, experience, and knowledge across all vocology disciplines."
ACTING
Katie played the leading role of Lady Brute in a workshop and staged reading of The Provok'd Wife directed by Philip Breen of the Royal Shakespeare Company, November 2022
Katie returned to the Clarence Brown Theatre stage as Helen Hubbard in Murder on the Orient Express in August 2022
Katie performed the leading role in a pilot presentation from Shallow Graves in NYC, Spring 2022
Katie returned to the Clarence Brown Theatre stage as Judy in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time in February 2022
COACHING
Katie joined Nashville Rep as dialect coach for Mary Poppins in April 2022 and will return in March 2023 for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Katie returned as voice and dialect coach for A Christmas Carol at Clarence Brown Theatre in November-December 2022
Katie returned to River & Rail Theatre as dialect coach for In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play in January 2022
PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS, AND PRESS
Presentation: "Developing An Actor-Centered Approach: Collaborative Professional Voice Labs for Graduate Students in Speech-Language Pathology and Acting," The Voice Foundation Annual Symposium 2023
Presentation: "The 4Ps of Accents," Southeastern Theatre Conference 2023
Peer-reviewed journal article: "When Mouths Went Missing: A Post-Pandemic, Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration for Actors and Animators," co-authored with Prof. John E. Kelley, Voice and Speech Review
Presentation: "An Actor-Centered Intervention Model: Collaborative Professional Voice Labs for Graduate Students in Speech-Language Pathology and Acting," Pan-American Vocology Association Symposium 2022 (August 2022)
Interview: Weekend Evenings with Sirine Demachkie, Australian Broadcast Corp (national public radio); topics: Elizabeth Holmes' distinctive voice, vocology, speech biases (March 2022)
Peer-reviewed journal article: "Interprofessional Approaches to Acoustic Voice Analysis," co-authored with Dr. Srihimaja Nandamudi, CCC-SLP; Voice and Speech Review, December 2021