Katy Early

Equally at home in theatre and opera, Katy is a stage director and recent graduate of the MFA directing program at Brooklyn College. She makes politically relevant and personally resonant work that endeavors to shift our communities away from violence towards care. She is currently a visiting assistant professor at Oberlin College teaching directing and acting. 

She is thrilled to be working with collaborators in New York, New England, Cleveland and beyond. Recent directing credits include a play with music by Bryce McClendon, The Smallest Sound in the Smallest Space (Lincoln Center staged reading 2024, the cell theater, 2023); a site-specific production of La Traviata (MassOpera, 2021); Omar Najmi's new operatic setting of En la ardiente oscuridad (Mosesian Center for the Arts, 2019), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (her very own backyard in Queens, 2018).

With a particular interest in how folk music can be blended with theatre, she has trained with several European theater companies in France and Poland (Pantheatre, Teatr Zar, Song of the Goat) in recent years.

Katy's interest in directing for film and TV has led her to taking several film classes at the Feirstein School of Cinema at Brooklyn College, where she made her first short film HER KIND (featuring Actors Center member, Jodie Lynne McClintock!) in the fall of 2023. 

She holds bachelor's degrees in both theatre and vocal performance from Oberlin College & Conservatory and a MFA in directing from Brooklyn College.