Katie McFadzen is a Phoenix-based actor, director, and teaching artist. She is an Associate Artist with Childsplay, a professional theater company for young audiences and families. She has been with Childsplay since 1993. Favorite Childsplay productions include: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Seussical, Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, The BFG, Still Life with Iris, and Getting Near To Baby. Other theatre performance credits include: A Year With Frog and Toad with Seattle Children’s Theatre; Lost and Foundling with Childsplay/Geva Theatre; An American in Paris, Always...Patsy Cline, Mamma Mia, Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson, and The Women withPhoenix Theatre; Good People,The Pursuit of Happiness, and Parallel Lives: The Kathy and Mo Show with Actors Theatre; How the Other Half Loves, The Great Gatsby, and a one-woman version of A Christmas Carol withArizona Theatre Company; Barbecue, TheWedding Band, Rasheeda Speaking with Black Theatre Troupe; Speech and Debate, The Year of the Rooster, and Small Mouth Sounds with Stray Cat Theatre. Directing credits include Becoming Dr. Ruth at The Phoenix Theatre Company, The Trump Card and The Cake at Stray Cat Theatre, and Eric and Elliot and The Snowy Day at Childsplay.
Education
Master of Fine Arts, Theatre for Young Audiences, Arizona State University 1990
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Theatre Performance, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater 1987