Kailie Larkin

Kailie Larkin is a teacher and artist who cultivates process-based creative environments for individual and collective growth. She holds Masters in Theater Education from The City College of New York and has worked as a teaching artist, school residency coordinator, summer program director, and full time teacher in grades K-8. With student-led devising and technical ownership at the core of her work she has directed over 30 productions with students ages 12-18. Her teaching expertise includes improvisation, devising, Shakespeare, clowning, mask, shadow cinema, puppetry, playwriting, and filmmaking. 

Kailie is a member of The Royal Frog Ballet and trained with Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield, MA. For 14 years she directed The Chelsea Funnery Shakespeare Program, an experience that galvanized her commitment to teaching theater as a vital tool for self-development and community building.  She was a Teaching Artist and Education Program Coordinator for The Shakespeare Society (now Public Shakespeare Initiative) and developed Professional Development workshops for teaching artists, teachers, and the NYC Department of Education. From 2014-2022 her primary focus was been as a full time middle school Theater teacher and director, most recently in Charlottesville, VA where she was awarded the April Waylett Excellence in Teaching Award and presented workshops in improvisation and process drama at the Virginia Theater Association and the Virginia Association of Independent Schools. She is currently a Teaching Artist working with schools and organizations throughout VT and NH and teaches at the Governor's Institutes on The Arts.