Katie Leo

MAAG (Mu Associated Artists Group)
Katie Leo is an adopted Korean writer, actor and educator.  As an actor, she has worked with numerous Twin Cities theatre companies.  She is a core member of MaMa mOsAiC Theatre, a women of color collective with whom she co-wrote and co-produced Bride/price, which debuted at Mixed Blood Theatre in December of 2004. As a writer, she has had work published in 60 Seconds to Shine: 221 One-Minute Monologues for Men (Heinemann), Monologues from the Playwrights’ Center (Smith & Kraus), Talking Stick (Jackpine Writers Bloc), The Journal of the Asian American Renaissance, and HardKore, a literary magazine out of Koreatown, Chicago.  Her first solo written play, A Single Shard, was commissioned and produced by Stages Theatre Company in 2005.  She has been awarded a Blacklock Fellowship for Poetry, a Mentor Series for Poetry at the Loft Literary Center, and two Many Voices Residencies at the Playwrights’ Center.  In addition, Ms. Leo has performed work at various open mics and cabarets around the Twin Cities.