Katie Broad grew up the youngest of 6 girls in the vibrant art community of Huntsville, Alabama. Because she was homeschooled, Katie had plenty of time to involve herself in the community theater scene, and performed in over 35 productions by the age of 17. Her entire family was involved; a father who worked as a tech director (and eventually became an IATSE rigger), a mother with a talent for costuming, and sisters who acted and found their niches in tech. It was quite a creative childhood. Her first paid acting gig was at 12 years old at a “living museum” where she performed a play on the porch of the house that her great-great-grandfather had built. Since then, she has experienced many serendipitous jobs including working with her favorite band the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s in Stop The Virgens at St Ann’s Warehouse and the Sydney Opera House (directed by Adam Rapp) and making her Broadway Debut in An Enemy of the People at Circle in the Square, her alma mater.

As a yoga teacher and survivor of domestic violence, Katie’s biggest passion is helping people stay in touch with their humanity - to feel and heal through art and movement. 

Above all, Katie loves a challenge; to be in the room at the start of a play working directly with the playwright to find the best essence of a character, to devise theater in a collaborative atmosphere. Her favorite challenge so far was learning a 50-page two-hander in under 2 weeks, to go on as Helene Yorke’s understudy in Strategic Love Play (Audible Theater) alongside Michael Zegen.

In all ways Katie loves to create. Writing songs with her ukulele, coaching actors on auditions, teaching yoga to hundreds of students, and tending to her garden in Queens.