Katie Butler
Director of Education and Community Engagement
Katie has worked in arts education for more than ten years, serving an incredibly diverse student population, working with every grade range from kindergarten to adult. Katie received her MFA in Devised and Physical Performance from the Pig Iron School in 2020, and since then has devoted herself to developing and sharing equitable and accessible movement practices.
Katie's career centers on fostering accessible, community-based processes and practices that benefit youth and families. As an adept community organizer and communicator, Katie has spent more than a decade building her skills developing innovative programming, hiring, managing and mentoring staff, students and volunteers, and planning educational events, alongside marketing and budget management.
As a disabled educator, Katie's pedagogical focus centers around accessibility in movement practice. She has written multiple essays in field-specific journals about her experience and ideas around accessibility in physical theatre education. Katie has previously worked with a variety of institutions including Carnegie Mellon University, University of the Arts, After School Activities Partnerships and The Philadelphia Free Library all in pursuit of movement equity and access.