Katie Keddell is a neurodivergent playwright, director, dramaturg, and theatre educator who has worked in educational, non-profit, community, and professional theatre settings for over 15 years. Katie recently finished their MFA in Directing at the University of Idaho with a focus on sustainable, consent-based, and decentralized theatre practices. Katie is an artist who specializes in original theatre works, accessibility, viewpoints, and heightened texts. 

Directing credits include the Youth Production Ensemble of Everyman Theatre, Chesapeake Shakespeare’s Macbeth, site-specific Romeo and Juliet, Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged and Men on Boats for Cohesion Theatre Company. She served as the Devising Dramaturg for Body. a verbatim devised piece ,Capital Fringe Festival where she fused ethnographic interview with research and universal design. 

Katie is a published author in the Youth Theatre and Kennedy Center Professional Papers journals for research on accessible arts programs. Katie was commissioned to write two plays for The River School in Washington, D.C. Katie has been a presenter for the American Alliance for Theatre and Education and Leadership Exchange for the Arts and Disability national conferences.  Katie has an MA in Theatre Arts from San Diego State University, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude and is a member of Scholars without Borders for her work in Casablanca, Morocco.