Katie Kring is a composer, lyricist, bookwriter, arranger, performer, and stage manager based in New York City.

Katie is an alum of the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she was a 2005-2006 recipient of the Jewish Foundation for the Education of Women Award. She received her BFA in Performing Arts Technology, Media Arts Curriculum, with a concentration in Sonic Arts, from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she was a Sidney and Irene Shipman Scholar, and graduated with high honors.

While at the University of Michigan, she participated in the creation of many interdisciplinary and multimedia performance pieces, culminating in the world premiere of an original dance piece, Dancing in Trees, in which she danced, 25 feet in the air, in the branches of a live beech tree, to original music and video projections. And lived to tell about it. She also collaborated extensively with University Productions during the 2003-2004 season, composing and music directing an original score for The Nutcracker, and creating incidental music for She’s All Yours and An Arthur Miller Celebration, directed by Mark Lamos.

Her first full-length musical, PEARL, a re-imagination of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, received its first New York reading in April, directed by Jonathan Bernstein, with musical direction by Reza Jacobs. It featured Broadway regulars such as Nili Bassman and Joe Cassidy, among others. She also wrote the book and lyrics for Onward, a one-act musical, in collaboration with composer J. Oconer Navarro; it received its first New York reading in 2005.

Katie’s New York credits as a stage manager include La Tempestad at the Ohio Theatre, as well as numerous readings of new musicals. Regionally, she has worked at Barrington Stage Company on Follies with Donna McKechnie, The Importance of Being Earnest with Carole Shelley and Christopher Innvar, and William Finn’s Elegies, as well as the Festival of One-Act Musicals, presented in collaboration between NYU and BSC. Other regional credits include A Christmas Carol at White Plains Performing Arts Center.

Other New York credits include the Encores! at City Center production of The Apple Tree for music preparation, Sucker Fish Messiah at the Jean Cocteau Rep as a production consultant, and the 2006 Midtown International Theatre Festival as a Venue Manager. Other regional credits include the University of North Dakota tour of Love According to Luc, for which she served as production/company manager and performed the roles of Lundy/Mary Magdalene.

Upcoming projects include My Kind of Guy, a song cycle about all the men Katie has ever known, and Up: A Gravitationally Challenged One-Act.