I’m Katie Lindsay, and I direct new plays, musicals, and reimagined classics.
My work is playful, ensemble-driven, and visually theatrical. I work in Los Angeles and New York, and I’m proud to call Los Angeles home. I am a 2019 Foeller Fellow at Williamstown Theater Festival. Recently, I directed The Door you Never Saw Before by Matt Schatz at the Geffen Stayhouse, and created a site-specific immersive audio piece called A Walk in My Neighborhood. Red Emma & the Mad Monk, which I co-created with playwright Alexis Roblan, played to sold out houses at The Tank, and was named a NYTimes Critic’s Pick.
Other favorite collaborations include Keeping up with the Prozorovs by Lucy Gillespie at the Hollywood Fringe (Encore Producers Award, Best Female Director nomination), Tom & Eliza at Echo Theater Company, Harry & The Thief by Sigrid Gilmer with The Habitat, and What Happened at the Dolphin Show by Miranda Rose Hall at the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival (Winner, published in 2018.)
Some of my favorite companies I’ve collaborated with include the Geffen Playhouse, Getty Villa, Celebration, IAMA Theatre Company, Ars Nova, Center Theatre Group, and EST/Los Angeles.
As an assistant director, I’ve worked on Broadway, off-Broadway, and regionally with Rebecca Taichman, Eric Ting, Rachel Chavkin, Kimberly Senior, Sarah Ruhl, Branden Jacobs Jenkins, and PigPen Theater Company. I was the recipient of a 2016 SDCF Observership with Robert O’Hara.
Artistic Producing
Big Little Theater Company
Big Little Theater Company, formerly Katie Lindsay Productions, makes work that is epically intimate: ambitious, theatrical, and close to the heart. We are committed to paying artists a living wage and fostering joyful collaborative environments where artists can bring their full selves to the artistic process. In 2020, BLT produced “A Walk in My Neighborhood,” a site specific audio walk in Atwater Village about our sense of belonging during a global pandemic.
The Habitat
In 2014, I founded The Habitat Theater Company with producer Caroline Gart. Our mission was to produce new works by women and provide opportunities for emerging artists. New Territory, an evening of short plays, featured early works by Sarah Delappe, Julia Izumi, Blake Bishton, and Molly Beach Murphy. In 2016, we produced and I directed Harry & the Thief by Sigrid Gilmer, a time-traveling play about a young woman who goes back in time to bring guns to Harriet Tubman.
In 2016, we launched the Directors Playground, a unique program that provided resources to 6 directors to develop director-driven projects. Directors Playground projects include Playing Hot (Pipeline), Cowboy Bob (Ars Nova, New York Stage and Film) and Senschunt (JACK, NY Times Critic’s Pick).
In 2017, we produced APLOMB, conceived and directed by Alex Keegan through our Directors Playground. APLOMB is an ensemble-generated play about a young queer woman with an anxiety disorder.
The Habitat was the recipient of multiple ART/NY Creative Space Grants, a Brooklyn Arts Council Grant, and a winner of the Nancy Quinn Grant for administrative support.
MeetCute
Matchmaking for Theater People
In 2019, upon moving to Los Angeles, I co-created MeetCute with director Hannah Wolf. We describe MeetCute as matchmaking for theater people.
MeetCute introduces playwrights and directors and brings them together for the first time to stage a short play. Our goal is to build a creative community of theatermakers in Los Angeles. Our first MeetCute event was completely sold out.