Katie Ganem

Katie Ganem (she/her) is a performer, playwright, teacher, and indie bookseller based in Baltimore/DC. She has a B.S. in Musical Theater from Nazareth University in Rochester, NY, and an M.F.A. in Classical Acting from STC Academy at George Washington University. Favorite acting credits include The Puppet Nutcracker (the Puppet Co), Macbeth (Chesapeake Shakespeare Co), All Your Questions Answered (Geva Theatre), 19 the Musical (Through the Fourth Wall), As You Like It (Devil’s Isle Shakespeare), Twelfth Night the Musical, Macbeth, All’s Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure (STC Academy), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Starstuff Theatre Collective), Peter and the Starcatcher (St. Mark’s Players), Into the Woods (purple light theatre co), Urinetown (Heritage Players), and Peter Rabbit the Musical (Red Branch Theatre Co). Her plays have been performed at Centerstage, Avant Bard, Glass Canon Theatre Company, Open Space Arts, and abroad at the International Youth Arts Festival in London. Katie is a twice recipient of the DC Arts and Humanities Fellowship.

As a teaching artist, Katie has worked with Imagination Stage, Unity Dance & Movement, Everyman Theatre, and Common Tone Music. She specializes in early childhood dance education. She is also a bookseller and social media coordinator for One More Page Books, an independent bookstore in Arlington.

Katie is married to her high school sweetheart, and just had her first baby. She enjoys crafting (particularly sewing and crocheting), museums, eating at expensive restaurants, reading books of all genres, cozy video games, animated movies, and cuddling her dog, Lupin.