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Katie began improvising at iO in 1997, she became a proud member of Sirens in 2000, and she joined The Second City Training Center as an adjunct faculty member for both improv & sketch in 2008. As a writer, Katie is author or co-author of several critically-acclaimed sketch shows (Epic Prattle, Blind Side, Gynecology, Consumer Reports: Spring Break Edition!, War Is Bad: Sock Puppet Euripides), her full-length plays have had readings or workshops with theaters including Goodman, Stage Left, and Polarity, she’s written and performed essays for NPR, WBEZ, Second Story, The Dollar Store, Sunday Salon, and WNEP’s Skald, and she’s currently half of The History Girls (with Siren Lindsey Harrington), a duo that offers news commentary from the perspective of interesting dead people at the live magazine show Paper Machete at The Green Mill. Katie is also a graduate of the Second City Directing Program (2009), and she loves directing independent sketch groups like GayCo. Katie is honored to have been awarded four Artist’s Residencies at the Ragdale Foundation. In the other half of her life, Katie is a lawyer and bioethics professor.