Category: Performance

Acting Performance Update Voice Work

As You Like It & 19 the Musical Audiobook

I am beyond excited to have two projects that started this January.

As You Like It – STC Academy Alum Production

I have officially started rehearsals for As You Like It, a production that is being produced and performed entirely by alums of Shakespeare Theatre Academy (including director Seamus Miller). I will be portraying the usurping Duke Frederick. Mark your calendars for May 5th, 6th, 12th, and 13th. This outdoor show will be performed at the DC War Memorial!

19 the Musical the Audiobook – Coming Soon to Audible

19 at Library of Congress | Photo by John Nelson Photography

It’s hard to believe it’s been 6 years since I’ve first started working on Alice Paul, and 4 years since the world premiere of 19 the Musical. The pandemic unfortunately shut down its grand plans. But the creators are trying something new! An “audiobook” version of the ENTIRE musical.

We have reunited some of the original cast, as well as a few new faces, and we are going to be recording in February. I am glad to have another crack at Alice and I can’t wait for you to hear this new version! Learn more and sign up for the newsletter at 19themusical.com.

Acting Performance Update

Staged Reading: First Ladies & the Big White Lie

I am thrilled to be a part of the staged reading of this new play, which will be performing at the Woman’s National Democratic Club later this month. First Ladies & the Big White Lie by Janine Sternlieb with Lennie Dean, brings together several famous First Ladies in the afterlife. I will be playing Varina Davis, the only First Lady of the Confederacy (a slightly different personality than the last historical figure I portrayed, Alice Paul). Details on the performances are below.

First Ladies & the Big White Lie by Janine Sternlieb with Lennie Dean
Directed by Shanara Gabrielle

At the Women’s National Democratic Club
1526 New Hampshire Avenue, NW | Washington, DC 20036
Wednesday September 20th at 2pm
Thursday September 21st at 6pm

Tickets can be purchased here

Acting Performance Photos Update

All’s Well and Macbeth @ STC Academy

It’s been a busy year for me as I work towards my MFA in Classical Acting at Shakespeare Theatre Academy in DC. In December, I played LaFew in a condensed version of All’s Well That Ends Well directed by Dan Crane. And this semester, my classmates and I, led by Emma Jaster and Marcus Kyd, devised a physical hour long version of Macbeth together. We performed in an empty art gallery at the Corcoran School. Check out the photos from both productions.

All’s Well That Ends Well
Dec 2nd & 3rd, 2022
Directed by Dan Crane

Betram – Gil Mitchell
Helen – Emma Wirthwein
Countess – Robyn Cohen
King – Lucy Connell
LaFew – Katie Ganem
Parolles – Dan Crane
Diana/ Lord 2 – Jessica Murillo Kemp
Widow/ Lord 1 – Catie Carlile

Macbeth
March 10th & 11th, 2023
Directed by Emma Jaster & Marcus Kyd, Devised by the Ensemble

Macbeth – Gabriel Alejandro
Lady Macbeth – Mallory Trice
Banquo – Sarah Cushman
Ross – Colton Chaney
Duncan – Katie Ganem
Malcolm – Catie Carlile
Donalbain/ Gentlewoman – Lucy Connell
Doctor – Robyn Cohen
Macduff – Geoffrey Boesser
Lady Macduff – Yihong Chen
Porter – Gil Mitchell
Murderer 1 – Rachel Sanderson
Murderer 2 – Jessica Murillo Kemp
Murderer 3 – Selah Kreiger
Fleance – Kira Simmons
Seyton/ Fight Choreographer – Emma Wirthwein
Lennox – Jackson Knight Pierce
Witches – Ensemble

Performance playwrighting Update

The Resting Soul of Galileo at Avant Bard’s Scripts in Play Festival

I’m excited to share that my new play, The Resting Soul of Galileo, has been selected to receive a reading at Avant Bard Theatre’s upcoming Scripts in Play Festival. I will be given the opportunity to incorporate audience feedback into the second reading.

Friday, Oct 8, 7:30 pm; Sunday, Oct. 10, 2:00 pm
At Gunston Arts Center 2 in Arlington, VA
Directed by Aria Velz
Pay What You Can
Proof of vaccination or negative COVID test and face coverings are required for entry

Acting Performance Update Voice Work

Dracula Radio Play

Mrs. Renfield

with Open Space Arts

January 29th and February 6th

Happy New Year! One upside of the pandemic is getting to try out new forms of entertainment and getting to create art with people from all different locations. I am very excited to be a part of my first radio play with my old theatre home, Open Space Arts, working with a cast of voice actors from all over the country.

The performance will be broadcast live on January 29th at 7pm, with a rebroadcast on February 6th at 8pm. Pay what you can tickets can be purchased here.

Dracula Tickets

Acting Performance Update

Virtual Romeo and Juliet

Benvolio

with Siren Song Shakespeare Company

May 28th and 29th, 2020

Nothing’s more Shakespearean than having the plague shut down the theaters, but we now have 21st century solutions. Log on to Siren Song Shakespeare’s Facebook page on May 28th at 6pm EST, or their youtube channel on the 29th, to catch our virtual version of Shakespeare’s classic. Happy that I’m getting to “tread the boards” with some of my former classmates from Nazareth College while we are self-isolating from COVID-19.

Acting Music Performance Reviews Update

19 the Musical

19 – A New Musical

Alice Paul

with Through the 4th Wall

Throughout 2018/ 2019

Katie Ganem is magnetic and inspiring as Alice Paul…”

Broadway World

I have had the pleasure of workshopping this new musical for two years now, in some amazing locations around the city including the Library of Congress, the National Archives, Lorton Workhouse, and the DAR Museum. I am proud to announce that we will be performing the full show at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in November. Tickets are available now.

Image of Katie with ensemble of 19 at Library of Congress
Photo by John Nelson Photography

We are currently raising money for our run of the show and to go to NYC for an industry reading. Make a tax deductible donation today! And catch previews of our songs on Spotify.