Katie McHugh, Director

Katie McHugh is a New York based director, teacher and producer of theatre with an MFA in directing from The New School for Drama. She is the Founding Director of the Southeastern Teen Shakespeare Company, Co-Founder of the Teen Shakespeare Conservatory, and Co-Artistic Director of Les Exportables, theatre company in New York and Quebec. Katie is an award-winning director who specializes in both new play development and classic work. Her enthusiasm for educational theatre earned her a nomination for the Champion of the Arts Award in 2006, and the Big Read Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2007. Selected New York directing credits include: THE AUTHOR'S VOICE at The Cell Theater, Euripides’ MEDEA in the New School for Drama’s New Visions festival, Producer and Director of The Winter Comedy Fest at Theatre 54, and THE LIST by Jennifer Tremblay in the New York International Fringe Festival 2012 (Winner of Overall Excellence in a Solo Performance). She is also a four-time director for the Writopia World Wide Plays Festival.  Her most recent directing work has been in Mexico, where she has been named Artistic Ambassador of the Mexican Fringe Festival San Miguel and has directed/produced four productions, including co-producing ENEMY, an adaptation of Ibsen’s AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE directed by Emmy award winner, Dorothy Lyman.  Her new theatre company, Yonder Window Theatre Co, is making its debut performance in 2017 with a multidisciplinary, multi-cultural, bi-lingual international production of Shakespeare’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM called THE DREAM PROJECT.  Katie is a Member of the League of Professional Theatre Women. www.yonderwindow.co