what i’ve done/am doing

Katie Mazzini was born on Long Island. She graduated in 2012 with a B.F.A in Musical Theater from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Shortly after, she moved to Chicago where she began working professionally in Tracy Letts’ adaptation of Three Sisters (Steppenwolf Theater Company). Her early credits include Singin’ in the Rain (Drury Lane), and Erica Mott’s devised opera, 3 Singers, where she first met master vocal pedagog and formative mentor, Fides Krucker. In 2013, she joined Chicago’s Walkabout Theater Company and spent 8 years co-devising original pieces across the United States, India, and Poland. In 2021, Katie spent a year as a member of the Focused Research Team in Art as Vehicle at the Wokcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards in Pontedera, Italy. As part of the Workcenter, she performed in The Underground and Songs of Tradition throughout Italy, Colombia, Chile, and Argentina. She is currently a teacher in training with Krucker and developing projects with collaborators around the world. Katie is fat. She’s a passionate researcher, a dedicated TV viewer, and a builder of unconventional bridges across creative fields and forms.