Katie Geissinger

Katie Geissinger has been performing with Meredith Monk since 1990, in concert and theater works including ATLAS (Houston Grand Opera), The Politics of Quiet (BESSIE winner), WEAVE (St. Louis Symphony), the GRAMMY-nominated impermanence, and most recently Indra's Net at the Park Avenue Armory. Geissinger premiered Bang on a Can’s OBIE Award-winning The Carbon Copy Building and performed in the second world tour of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach. She has also appeared in Jonathan Miller’s staged productions of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Steve Reich's Music for Eighteen at BAM, in John Tavener’s The Veil of the Temple at Lincoln Center, and in Ann Hamilton’s the event of a thread, with music by David Lang, at the Park Avenue Armory. Geissinger’s Broadway credits include Baz Luhrmann’s production of La Boheme and Coram Boy, and she has appeared off-Broadway in many Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. She has premiered many new music theater pieces, including works by Mark Mulcahy, Ben Katchor, Philip Miller, Julia Wolfe, Aaron Siegel, Marisa Michelson, John Kelly, and Anne Bogart.