Katheryn McGaffigan
Writer/Performer
Katheryn McGaffigan is a NYC-based playwright, Equity actor, and musician. She made her Off-Broadway debut with Follower, a solo show she wrote and performed, at Theatre Row as part of the United Solo Theatre Festival. Follower was further developed for an award-winning run at the NYC Fringe Festival, where its final two performances sold out. In film, Katheryn co-wrote and co-starred in As the Dust Settles, a participatory documentary about Burning Man. As a musician, she has performed internationally with the gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello, and her forthcoming EP features two members of the legendary Swans. Katheryn studied playwriting at Sarah Lawrence College and trained in solo performance at The Barrow Group, Go-Solo, and Magnet Theater. Her acting training includes Harvard University, The New Actors Workshop, and LAByrinth Theater Company, among others. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Playwrights’ Center, and the Association of Performing Arts Professionals.
