MEET THE TEAM
“We hope to create connections & inclusivity that will last and support the thriving theater community in Los Angeles.”
(Photo by Brian Hashimoto)
KATIE LINDSAY
(FOUNDER)
Katie Lindsay directs new plays, musicals, and reimagined classics. She is the 2019 Bill Foeller Directing Fellow at Williamstown Theatre Festival and a member of the 2021-2022 Geffen Writers Room. Directing credits include Orlando by Sarah Ruhl (Williamstown), Red Emma & the Mad Monk by Alexis Roblan (The Tank, NY Times Critic’s Pick), Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl (Getty Villa reading) Keeping up with the Prozorovs by Lucy Gillespie (Hollywood Fringe; Encore Producers Award, Best Female Director nomination), Tom & Eliza (Echo Theater Company), Harry & The Thief by Sigrid Gilmer (The Habitat), and What Happened at the Dolphin Show by Miranda Rose Hall (Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival; Winner). Katie co-founded Big Little Theater Company, which is the umbrella organization for MeetCute LA. As an assistant director, Katie has worked on Broadway, off-Broadway, and regionally with Rebecca Taichman, Eric Ting, Rachel Chavkin, Robert O'Hara, and Branden Jacobs Jenkins. She is an alumnae of Directors Lab West, The Habitat’s Directors Playground, a 2016 SDC Observership recipient, and a 2020 BOLD Ventures grant recipient. Upcoming: Untitled Baby Play (World Premiere, IAMA).
HANNAH WOLF
(FOUNDER)
Hannah Wolf is a Los Angeles based director originally from Juneau Alaska. She makes “subversively shiny” work for the stage that experiments with form, content and the role of the audience. Hannah collaborates with playwrights, musicians, magicians, craft brewers, dancers, puppeteers and many others to develop new plays and to subvert old ones. Recent work includes: She Buried the Pistol by Lydia Blasidell (La Jolla’s WOW Festival) Instructions for a Séance by Katie Bender (MoHA), Franklin by Samantha Noble (Perseverance Theatre), TITLE LOADING (Fusebox Festival), The Bigot by William Glick, Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spigel, ENRON by Lucy Prebble (UT Austin), and The Sky Game by Kimberly Belflower (Peppercorn Theatre). She’s directed and developed new plays with the Geffen Playhouse, Greenway Arts, We the Women Collective, The Fountain Theatre, Superhero Clubhouse and The Civilians. Along with Meet Cute she curates the blog Ask A Director. SDC Associate, National Directors Fellow, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and Fulbright Research Fellow (Bucharest Romania) MFA: UT Austin. hannahjwolf.com
HENRY ALEXANDER KELLY
(PRODUCER)
Henry Alexander Kelly is a gay, venti-caramel, Afro-Latino comedic writer and actor with San Francisco Bay Area and Nicaraguan Roots. He's currently a 2022 Film Independent Project Involve Writing Fellow and is part of the 2022 Sundance BIPOC Mentorship Program. He was a recipient of the 2021 Sundance Uprise Grant & a graduate of the 2020 National Hispanic Media Coalition’s Series Scriptwriters Program sponsored by ABC and NBC. His half-hour animated, mockumentary, comedy, NOW-WHAT?! (NAHUATL), about the Nicarao-Aztecs in the 1400s dealing with an ever-changing world, was optioned by Campanario Entertainment. He is a member of the La Mesa Collective, a Latinx group created by Peter Murrieta, Jon Huertas, and an amazing collective of Latinx artists. He creates zany, larger-than-life, genre-blending worlds exploring the intersection of cultural identity, interpersonal struggles, and the absurdity of society. He's repped by CSP Management. For more info visit: www.henryalexanderkelly.com
MAKEDA DECLET
(PRODUCER)
Makeda is a Guyanese-American writer, actor, and novice puppet-maker with a BFA in theater from New York University. Her passion lies in telling stories about Black family dynamics and addiction through the lens of Black, Queer protagonists. And if she can make you laugh while she's at it, well, good for her! makedawritesplays.com
LUCY HOULIHAN
(PRODUCER)
Lucy Houlihan is a stage manager, director, and producer in Los Angeles. Most recently, she stage managed A Kid Like Jake at Pasadena Playhouse with IAMA Theatre Company, was ASM for Hamlet the Rock Musical at El Portal Theater, and stage managed several script workshops with the Geffen Playhouse. Before moving to LA, she received an undergraduate degree from Colorado College’s Theatre and Dance Program, where she wrote and directed an original play for her thesis, directed Rabbit Hole (2016) and co-directed Yellow Face (2017). She’s a multifaceted artist whose work focuses on presenting diverse, issue-based perspectives. She has been working with MeetCute since May 2019, and feels so grateful to be a part of this amazing community of artists.
Meet Cute is a project of Big Little Theater Company.
We are generously sponsored by The Pussycat Foundation and BOLD Ventures
Subsidiary of Katie Lindsay Productions 2019
FRACTURED ATLAS
