1. Katherine "Katie" Cappiello is an American playwright, director, feminist, teacher, activist and public speaker best known for her plays Slut and Now That We're Men.
19 Facts About Katie Cappiello
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Katie Cappiello was born in Brockton, Massachusetts to Mike and Jane Cappiello, both retired public school teachers.
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Katie Cappiello attended Brockton High School in Massachusetts, where she graduated in 1999.
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Katie Cappiello received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with concentrations in Political Science.
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Katie Cappiello trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, where she learned method acting and eventually served as head teacher of the Young Actors Program at the institute.
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Katie Cappiello launched The PossEble Theater Company in 2005, a theater company whose profits from productions were donated to building theater programming in public elementary schools.
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In 2007, Katie Cappiello co-founded The Arts Effect NYC, a dramatic arts school, with Meg McInerney.
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Katie Cappiello first wrote and directed the play SLUT in 2013.
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Katie Cappiello is the playwright for the play Now That We're Men.
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In 2017, Katie Cappiello wrote and directed After 18, which explores the lives of women who were trafficked as children.
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In 2017, Katie Cappiello wrote and directed JOY, which was presented at the New York FRIDGE Festival.
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In 2011, Katie Cappiello wrote and directed Facebook Me, which premiered at Teatro SEA in New York City.
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Katie Cappiello wrote and directed Keep Your Eyes Open in 2008, which premiered at the Cherry Lane Theatre.
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Katie Cappiello has been a guest speaker at events such as the National Museum of Women in the Arts's FRESH TALKS; The Brooklyn Museum's Brooklyn Conference; and Talks at Google.
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Katie Cappiello created workshops for the StopSlut movement, a "youth-led anti-sexual bullying movement".
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Katie Cappiello co-created and facilitated Project Impact, "a leadership-through-storytelling workshop for youth trafficking survivors".
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Katie Cappiello has been invited to lead workshops at the ChiTeen Lit Fest; the St Paul's School; and at Choate Rosemary Hall.
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Katie Cappiello was honored by the National Women's Hall of Fame.
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Katie Cappiello was named one of New York's New Abolitionists, a group of New Yorkers "united by our commitment to ending human trafficking".