Katie’s story “The New Kid” is available on demand for a limited time as part of Theater Mu’s “You Shall Hear Me” series, four audio stories exploring supernatural reckonings from the Asian American experience. Other stories by Eric Sharp, Isabella Dawis, and Bao Phi. Visit…
Katie participated in a panel about anti-Asian violence with AAPI writers Carla Ching, Isabella Dawis, Saymoukda Vongsay, and Lisa Marie Rollins, along with Theater Mu Artistic Director Lily Tung Crystal; they discussed how the arts and playwriting can give voice to the community and heal…
Katie received a Spark Leadership grant from the Coalition of Asian American Leaders (CAAL) to co-produce a series of new plays by AAPI playwrights addressing anti-Asian violence
Katie co-produced the 2021 New Eyes Festival: (Un)Scene with Theater Mu, featuring 10-minute plays by five AAPI playwrights addressing anti-Asian violence. Click here to read more about the festival in American Theatre Magazine.
Katie is thrilled to join the Board of Theater Mu, the Twin Cities’ Asian American theatre company and second largest APIA theatre in the country. She spent several formative years as an actor, and later playwright, with this company and is grateful to come “home”…
PLACED is a book of photos and essays by Korean adoptee artist Diana Albrecht, profiling a diverse group of 10 Korean adoptees. Book launch and limited exhibition at PAIKKA in St. Paul. For more info, click here.
Katie contributed spoken word to the experimental jazz album Negative Space, along with musicians Guerino Mazzola, Alex Lubet, Nick Zielinski, and James E. Holdman. Read a review here and purchase it here.
Katie took a break from writing for a featured role in the Minneapolis independent film Jasmine Star, written and directed by Jo Rochelle (photo of cast and crew from read through)
Mirrors and Windows is a fellowship for Indigenous and writers of color who are writing in youth literature (photo of 2017-18 fellows)
Entanglements: Sunday, August 4th at 3pm at Red Garage Studio in South Minneapolis, featuring Paula Cisewski, Michael Kleber-Diggs, Katie Hae Leo, and Matt Mauch