Katie Walker (she/her) is a Director and Dramaturg from Denver, Colorado and based in New York City. She serves as the NYC-Metro Regional VP for the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas and works as a Research Assistant in the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. She is the host, founder, and creative producer of Love, NYC Dramaturgs (a love letter from dramaturgs to the New York theatre community) https://howlround.com/happenings/first-annual-love-nyc-dramaturgs-celeb….
Recent directing credits include BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop final presentation of The Knave of Hearts (Book and...
Katie Walker (she/her) is a Director and Dramaturg from Denver, Colorado and based in New York City. She serves as the NYC-Metro Regional VP for the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas and works as a Research Assistant in the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. She is the host, founder, and creative producer of Love, NYC Dramaturgs (a love letter from dramaturgs to the New York theatre community) https://howlround.com/happenings/first-annual-love-nyc-dramaturgs-celeb….
Recent directing credits include BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop final presentation of The Knave of Hearts (Book and Lyrics by Pauline David-Sax and Composition by Katherine Goktepe), Small Potatoes by Alli Hartley-Kong for the 2025 StrangeGirlz Summer Play Festival, Call Me Kit in the Harvey Fierstein Theatre Lab (Book by Katie Walker, Lyrics by Katie Duggan, and Music by Katherine Goktepe), Rabbit. Rabbit. Rabbit.: a Courtney Love Play (by Brittyn Dion Bonham) for the 2025 Moonlight Series at the Tank and the 2024 Rogue Theatre Festival at the Flea Theatre, A Letter for Jesse (by Caroline Lapinski) for the Femme Fantasies Festival with the Strange Girls Theatre Collective, and Our Lady of Instagram Live (by Alli Hartley-Kong) for First Kiss Theatre's 2024 FebLab development program.
Dramaturg Credits include Niagara: A New Musical by Lauren Widner and Ryan McCurdy with additional material by Katie-James Rushin (https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Sarita-Amani-Nash-to-Lead-Industr…), Normal Ave NAPSeries (Sarah Sits Shiva for Herself by Reid Pope (Dir. Kathleen Capdesuñer), Monica: This Play is Not About Monica Lewinsky by Dianne Nora, Enduring Atlas by Jacqueline Bircher, and All Eight by Lilly Camp.
Katie provides dramaturgical consultations for writers (Most recently - a tap dance musical, a new song cycle, an American history play) as well as dramaturgical writing to supplement pitch deck materials for commercial producers. She has compiled research for a variety of theatrical projects. Katie has previously evaluated submissions for The Playwrights Realm, Normal Ave, and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
When Katie lived in Denver, she acted for several years as the Resident Dramaturg and Literary Manager for Pipedream Productions (White Rabbit Red Rabbit - Denver True West Award, Piping Hot New Works, and 4.48 Psychosis). She also assisted Ina Marlowe and Stephanie Prugh with dramaturgy for the Roe Green production of A Doll's House at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
As a director and dramaturg, Katie seeks out projects that center women and femme people. She specializes in developing new work, musical theatre, adaptations, and providing textual analysis. Katie also has a dance background and loves incorporating dance and physicality into her work. She is passionate about helping writers of all mediums tell their stories as impactfully as possible.
Her Writer NPX profile is available at https://newplayexchange.org/users/53625/katie-walker.