Katie Watson

Title:

Improv, Writing

Location:

Chicago

Katie Watson is active in Chicago's theater and literary communities. She began her improv career at ImprovOlympic, she's been a proud member of Sirens (the country's longest-running all-female improv group) since 2000, and she developed and teaches a course on improv to enhance doctor-patient communications at Northwestern University's medical school. Katie is also a playwright, the author or co-author of many sketch shows (including the adaptation War Is Bad: Sock Puppet Euripides, which raised money for Iraqi orphans), and the writer/performer of non-fiction essays for outlets including NPR and Serendipity Theater Company's Second Story. Katie was an Artist in Residence at the Ragdale Foundation in 2003, 2006, and 2007, and she'll complete the Second City Directing Program in July '09.