Katie Laris

Theatre Arts Department Co-Chair

Associate Professor, Acting and Directing 

About Katie

Katie  is a stage director and an instructor of acting in The Theatre Arts Department at SBCC. Recent productions include Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Good Kids, Arsenic and Old Lace, Becky’s New Car, August: Osage County, Through the Fire, The Solid Gold Cadillac, Twelve Angry Men, Love,Santa Barbara, Machinal, The Suicide, Moonchildren, Stirring the Pot, Twelve Angry Men,Over the Tavern, Seascape, The Physicists, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Lola Goes to Roma,Gunfighter: A Gulf War Chronicle, Real Women Have Curves, Ghosts, Fortinbras and Baby with the Bathwater. Previously she directed Fuente Ovejuna, All’s Well That Ends Well and The Birds in New York City and The Trial, The Ride Across Lake Constance and Danger Cave in Portland, Oregon. She also produced and wrote TV programs for Animal Planet, Discovery Health Channel and PBS. Katie received her B.A. in Theatre/Literature from Reed College and her M.F.A. in Theatre Directing from Columbia University.

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