Katy Brown is Barter Theatre’s 4th Producing Artistic Director. She has served as Associate Artistic Director and Head of Casting since 2006, has been Artistic Director of The Barter Players since 2000, and first came to Barter in 1998 as an actor. She has directed more than 100 professional productions, including: The Three Musketeers ; Peter and the Starcatcher ; Mary’s Wedding ; A Streetcar Named Desire ; The Miracle Worker ; Little Women ; The 39 Steps ; Great Expectations ; Dead Man’s Cell Phone ; Anne of Green Gables ; Doubting Thomas ; The Road to Appomattox ; The Fantasticks ; Holiday Memories ; Wait Until Dark ; Tuck Everlasting ; The Foreigner ; Romeo and Juliet ; A Thousand Cranes ; and Violet ; as well as Barter’s national tour of Of Mice and Men. Katy has also been the director of the Young Playwrights Festival since its creation in 2002, leading to the creation of 3,858 plays by young people in this region. In 2014, Katy founded the Encore Players, a Theatre for Young Audiences company made up of Barter Players alum who tour nationally and internationally. She is also responsible for the annual return of Shakespeare to Barter via the National Endowment for the Arts’ Shakespeare in American Communities grant. These productions include: Hamlet ; Othello ; A Midsummer Night’s Dream ; Richard III ; and Twelfth Night. Katy is proud to have been named to the YWCA’s “Tribute to Women” (Arts), and The Business Journal of Tri-Cities’ “40 Under Forty” and “25 Women of Influence.”