July 2, 2024
The Department of Theatre and Dance is pleased to celebrate the hiring of Katherine Freer, who will join the department in the fall semester as an assistant professor as part of the UT Live Design and Production program (integrated media for live performance). Freer, who has served as a lecturer at the department since 2022, is a multi-media artist, filmmaker, organizer and educator with a prolific background in story, science and civic engagement.
Katherine Freer's artistic practice lives at the intersection of story, technology and civic engagement and is rooted in joy, curiosity, mutual learning and the pursuit of justice for all living beings. She is a core collaborator in All My Relations Collective, a proud member of Wingspace Theatrical Design and United Scenic Artists Local 829. Recent publications, both published in HowlRound Theatre Commons, include Design with an Equity Lens: Cultivating a Theatre Ecosystem That Can Hold Us All in Our Full Humanity and Seeding Change.
Freer’s awards and accolades include a MacDowell Fellowship (2022), winner of the 2021 Virginia Dares Cinematic Arts Award for DECOLONIZING Films and Media Projects, as well as nominations for the 2021 Cordillera Film Festival, 2021 Harlem Film Festival and 2008 People’s Choice Award. Her work has been presented Off-Broadway at The Signature Theater, Richard Rodgers Ampitheater and New World Stages, among others, as well as at the Prague Quadrennial, the Guthrie Theater and San Francisco Dance Film Festival, among others.
Freer received her Master’s of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College and her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from the Tisch School of the Arts (New York University).
More information about Freer’s work is available at katherinefreer.com