Katherine McGerr (she/her) first joined CTC in the 2006 conservatory; she served as artistic associate until 2010 and director/lead teaching artist of the Young Playwrights Project until 2022. Directing credits include The Flick (Red House Arts Center); The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (Syracuse Stage); the Broadway premiere of Noah Haidle's Birthday Candles (Associate Director, Roundabout); The Liar (Texas State University); The Wild Party (Syracuse University Department of Drama), The Second Shepherds’ Play (Colgate University, Indiana University); Measure for Measure (UNC/Playmakers Repertory Theatre); A Dream Play (Allegheny College); Hedda Gabler (Yale School of Drama); Dutchman (Yale Cabaret); Building the Wall (CTC New Play Workshop). Dramaturgy credits include the East Coast premiere of Donald Margulies' Shipwrecked!... (production dramaturg, Long Wharf) and the world premiere of Anna Deavere Smith's Let Me Down Easy (script assistant, Long Wharf). Katherine is currently an associate professor and the BFA Acting Program coordinator in the Syracuse University Department of Drama.