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Katie Butler

Katie is a disabled theatre artist and educator living and working in Pittsburgh.

Katie is a disabled artist and educator, working to create accessible physical theatre pedagogies. Katie holds her MFA in Devised and Physical Performance from The Pig Iron School, and currently serves as Visiting Faculty of Movement at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Essay

Designing Accessible Movement Spaces

7 July 2025

Theatrical movement classes often neglect access for people of all ability levels. Theatre educator Katie Butler shares about breaking ableist frameworks in her movement pedagogy and a new framework she is developing to do so: assessing principles rather than skills.

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Essay

Movement Is for Every Body

23 March 2023

Theatre artist and educator Katie Butler discusses the need to recalibrate movement practice toward accessibility and body autonomy, and shares her own experience navigating changes in her body’s abilities.

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