Katelyn Schiller (any pronouns)
Actor, Writer, Producer, Illustrator, 6 year Hollywood Fringe Veteran
Katelyn is a theatre and live entertainment artist, digital illustrator, and loves video games, Hayao Miyazaki movies, and Gordon Ramsay reality TV.
Katelyn has a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Performance from Central Washington University, specializing in devised works, puppets, Japanese Noh theatre. Katelyn has been performing on the front lines of the LA immersive theatre scene, collaborating on hits like C(ovell), Drunken Devil, Cloak and Dagger, Grunge Shop Tavern, Sideshow, Safehouse ‘77, Safehouse ’82, The Pod, Tales by Candlelight: The Scent of Adventure, and Dragon Show. They are currently co-artistic director of the LA immersive entertainment company Spy Brunch.
Katelyn performs as live virtual-reality actor for the video game company, Tender Claws, the XR experience; The Under Presents, and performed the first version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest in VR, featured in “Theater’s Next Act? A Show That’s All in Your Head” by the New York Times. Katelyn’s solo show, Murder Blood Bear Story premiered in 2015 at the Hollywood Fringe, was nominated for “best solo show”, and went on to tour the New Orleans Solo Festival, Maui Fringe, and internationally to the Canadian Nanaimo Fringe; winning “best in festival” and “best performance”. In 2018 Lucid Dramatics’ production of Laertes Loves Hamlet Loves Ophelia took home the Hollywood Fringe Award for “Best in Ensemble Theatre”. Fringe 2019 The Pod was nominated for “Best in Immersive Theatre”. In 2024 they returned with the sequel to the show that started it all, Murder Blood Bear Story: Part 2, this time armed with a giant bear puppet.
