Katie Keddell is a neurodivergent director, dramaturg, and theatre educator who has worked in educational, non-profit, community, and professional theatre settings for over 15 years. She has an MFA from the University of Idaho where Katie focused on sustainable, consent-based, and decentralized theatre practices. Katie is an artist who specializes in original theatre works, accessibility, viewpoints, and heightened texts. Currently, Katie is the Middle School Theatre Director and Teacher for the St. Paul’s Schools.. 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 methodology with research and universal design. 
Katie is a published author in Youth Theatre and the Kennedy Center Professional Papers journals for accessible arts program research. She has written 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.