CURRENT/RECENT PROJECTS

ACTING

Katie returned to the acting company at Utah Shakespeare Festival for the 2024 season
Katie reprised the role of Helen Hubbard in Murder on the Orient Express at Clarence Brown Theatre in September 2023

COACHING

Katie returns to Clarence Brown Theatre as Voice and Text Director for The Play That Goes Wrong (Spring 2025)
Katie will return to Great River Shakespeare Festival as Voice and Text Director for The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Summer 2025)
Katie served as dialect coach for The Great Lesbian Love of Eve Adams (AEA 29 hour reading) at TheatreLab NYC (Feb 2025)
Katie returned to PlayMakers Repertory Company in March 2024 as voice and dialect coach for Murder on the Orient Express

PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS, AND PRESS

Peer-reviewed journal article: "A Preliminary Report of Developing Performer-Centered Vocal Injury Rehabilitation: An Interprofessional Collaborative Practice for Graduate Students in Speech-Language Pathology and Acting," co-authored with Srihimaja Nandamudi, Journal of Voice, September 2024
Presentation: "Clinical Simulation in Professional Voice Labs," Pan-American Vocology Association Symposium, October 2024 (co-author Sri Nandamudi)
Katie won the 2024 Dorothy Mennen Research Development Grant from VASTA
Katie was interviewed by Huffington Post for a recent article exploring "fundie baby voice"
“Collaborative Professional Voice Labs for Graduate Students in Speech-Language and Pathology and Acting: A Pilot Study” (Poster). Michigan Speech-Language and Hearing Association's Conference, March 2023.
Presentation: Guest Speaker for GVSU's World Voice Day, April 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, November 2022
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