Katie Pearl

A.R.T.: Debut. Katie Pearl is a director, educator, and collaborative performance-maker whose work ranges from conventional plays to community-wide collaborations to experimental performances. Her practice is motivated by the conviction that personal encounter and creative exchange are essential to a humane world. She is Co-Artistic Director of the Obie Award-winning interdisciplinary company PearlDamour, with whom she creates interdisciplinary, often site-specific work which range from intimate to large-scale. Recent projects include MILTON, a performance and community engagement experiment made for and with 5 U.S. towns named Milton, and LOST IN THE MEADOW, commissioned for a 40-acre meadow at the Longwood Botanical Gardens. Pearl was the 2017 Quinn Martin Guest Chair of Directing at UCSD, a 2016 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton, and a 2018 visiting lecturer of Socially Engaged Art at Harvard. She currently splits her time between Brooklyn NY and Middletown CT, where she teaches theater at Wesleyan University. She is a Drama League alum and a proud member of SDC. katiepearl.com