Katie Pearl

Co-founder, PearlDamour
Visiting Lecturer, TDM 181DA: The Artist-Citizen: Socially Engaged Art in the 21st Century (Fall 2016)
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Katie Pearl is a collaborative theater director, performer, and author of new performance for both traditional and alternative spaces.  She is co-Artistic Director of the OBIE Award winning PearlDamour, an interdisciplinary company she shares with playwright Lisa D’Amour.  Recognition for PearlDamour includes a 2015 NEA Our Town grant for their national project Milton, a spoken-and-sung performance examining what it means to be American, made and performed in 5 small towns named Milton (coming to Milton, MA spring 2017). Katie received her MFA the Brown University Writing for Performance program. She is the recipient of a Steinberg Playwriting Commission from Trinity Rep Theatre, which she is using to support the development of a new script for the company.