Instructor Kathryn Carlsen has been teaching theatre since 2004. She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with a degree in Secondary Theatre and English Education and from Brooklyn College with a Masters in Performing Arts Management. Since 2006, she has been a performer with the Baltimore Improv Group as well as a teacher in BIG University. She has taught improvisation and communication workshops at UMCP School of Business and Johns Hopkins Medical School. She has performed at the Studio Theatre, Theatre Project, Creative Alliance, Mercury Theatre in Baltimore as well at festivals in DC, North Carolina, Philadelphia, Austin, New York, and Chicago.