Katie Walker (she/her) is a freelance Dramaturg and Director from Denver, Colorado and based in New York City. She currently 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 evaluates new play submissions as a Script Reader for The Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship and Scratchpad Series. Most recently, she directed Rabbit. Rabbit. Rabbit.: a Courtney Love Play by Brittyn Dion Bonham for the Rogue Theatre Festival at the Flea and Our Lady of Instagram Live by Alli Hartley-Kong for First Kiss Theatre's 2024 FebLab development program. Her own Playwright NPX profile is available at https://newplayexchange.org/users...
Katie Walker (she/her) is a freelance Dramaturg and Director from Denver, Colorado and based in New York City. She currently 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 evaluates new play submissions as a Script Reader for The Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship and Scratchpad Series. Most recently, she directed Rabbit. Rabbit. Rabbit.: a Courtney Love Play by Brittyn Dion Bonham for the Rogue Theatre Festival at the Flea and Our Lady of Instagram Live by Alli Hartley-Kong for First Kiss Theatre's 2024 FebLab development program. Her own Playwright NPX profile is available at https://newplayexchange.org/users/53625/katie-walker.
Dramaturgy Credits include Niagara: A New Musical by Lauren Widner and Ryan McCurdy with additional material by James Rushin (https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Sarita-Amani-Nash-to-Lead-Industr…), Normal Ave's 2023 NAPSeries (Enduring Atlas by Jacqueline Bircher), Don't Tell Amy's 2022 Draft One Development (Life in Eden by Meaghan Beese and Live Theatre, Alive by Wayne Firestone), Normal Ave's 2019 and 2020 NAP Series (Monica: This Play is Not About Monica Lewinsky by Dianne Nora, All Eight by Lilly Camp, and Sarah Sits Shiva for Herself by Reid Pope), television project Places the Show by Dani Prados, and Reunion '69 by Creative Office Endeavor.
She has previously evaluated play submissions for the New Play Summit at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, the NAPSeries Festival at Normal Ave, and the Workshop Theatre. She acted for several years as the Literary Manager and Resident Dramaturg for Pipedream Productions (Piping Hot New Works, 4.48 Psychosis, White Rabbit Red Rabbit - Denver True West Award). In Colorado, 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 and worked on the 2017 Athena Project Plays in Progress festival.
Katie specializes in new play development, musical theatre, textual analysis, adaptation of theatrical classics, and research-driven work. She is passionate about helping writers of all mediums tell their stories as impactfully as possible.