Katie Kopajtic is an actor, writer, filmmaker and teaching artist based in the lower Hudson Valley. Her work tends to explore belonging, queerness, and how we maintain the creative spirit in our for-profit world. Her essays and fiction have been published by the No Sleep Podcast, cream city review, Electric Literature, Variant Literature, The Future Fire, the Under Review, Peach Mag and more.
Notable acting credits include: Peekaboo, Quacks and Whacks: a (C)ancer Comedy, Modern Witches (The Players Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe) Marian, or the True Tale of Robin Hood (River’s Edge Theatre Company), Lipstick Lobotomy (Columbia University staged reading), and Confessions of a Personal Trainer (Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017, 59E59, The Tank).
In 2017, she wrote and directed the short film “The Actor”, starring Catherine Curtin and Lynn Cohen, which premiered at the New York Short Film Festival in 2018. She has also worked as Assistant Director for the short film Wake, and as a production assistant on The Light of The Moon (SXSW Audience Award), What Breaks the Ice, New York Fashion Week 2018-2019, and in various advertising projects including GLAMOUR and Adidas.
In 2016, Katie formed the independent production company Tres Brujas Productions with her wife Mónica Robles. Katie is a graduate of the 2021 Tin House Summer Workshop, and holds a B.F.A. in Acting from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2011).