I Will Eat You Alive by Katie Hileman
Directed by Katie Hileman
Produced by Interrobang Productions 

You are cordially invited to a dinner party hosted by three fat women to "celebrate" one’s decision to lose weight. Join us for a "delicious" five course "meal" confronting diet culture, fatphobia, and what it’s really like to be a fat woman in the age of Ozempic. It was inspired by and written after a series of interviews conducted between fat playwright, Katie Hileman, and a community of self-identified fat people.

Featuring Vicky Graham, Betse Lyons, & Meghan Taylor (Baltimore/Philadelphia); Becca Glantz, Betse Lyons, & Meghan Taylor (Towson)

Performed at: 

• Cannonball Festival @ Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA, September 2024
   
• Live Virtual Screen Event with Embody Lib, May 2024
  Sponsored by Project Heal, Body Liberation Baltimore, The Voxel, & National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA)
   
• The Voxel, Baltimore, MD, January 2024
  Made possible by The Voxel Artist Residency Program as well as grants from the Maryland State Arts Council and the Creative Baltimore Fund, a grant program funded by the Mayor's Office and the City of Baltimore
   
• Workshop with Towson University MFA Program, Towson, MD February 2020

Review Highlights:

“Katie Hileman’s I Will Eat You Alive brought me to tears… I walked out of the show energized by the stage time it gave specifically to fat joy and celebration.” - American Theatre Magazine

“I Will Eat You Alive has stuck to my ribs… If starvation is sacrilege, then cake must be holy. And in this play, each of us is offered a slice.” - The Hopkins Review

“A piping hot, sensory feast… The ensemble was a dynamite team… They left no crumbs and very few dry eyes.” - Maryland Theatre Guide

“Brilliantly written and expertly performed… Truly heart wrenching perfection.” - TheatreBloom

Press/Other Reviews:

• Baltimore Beat - Best (and Worst) of Baltimore 2024: Arts and Culture - Best Set Design/Casting: Theater of Body Positivity in “I Will Eat You Alive” by the Beat staff

• The Bad Oracle - The Five Best Shows I Saw in Baltimore This Year by Annie Montone

• Effortless Boudoir - How 'I Will Eat You Alive' Changed Me by Christine Harazim

• Baltimore Beat - I Will Eat You Alive: An Ode To Being Fat by S. Ireti

• WBJC - I Will Eat You Alive takes a big bite out of a tough topic by Gavin Witt

• The Curvy Fashionista - Review: I Will Eat You Alive by Christine Murphy

• Baltimore Banner - In new play ‘I Will Eat You Alive,’ fat women reclaim their right to take up space by Courtney Proctor

• WYPR's On The Record - A seat at the table: ‘I Will Eat You Alive’ confronts fatphobia by Maureen Harvie, Melissa Gerr

Green Theatre Revolution by Susan McCully and the Ensemble
Featuring Lost Waters by Nayantara Nayar  
Directed by Susan McCully & Katie Hileman
Produced by University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Theatre Department

UMBC Department of Theatre presents Green Theatre Revolution, directed by Susan McCully and Katie Hileman, a festival of new plays and devised works about climate justice. Student-created work will be performed alongside excerpts from Lady Macbeth and Lady Macduff Tick Tock While Saraswati Saves the World by Susan McCully and Lost Waters by Nayantara Nayar. A special performance of student works will take place at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET) in downtown Baltimore.

Featuring: Marlon Brown, Jr.; Shaylee (Shay) Chubin; Cameron Denny; Rob Dunham; Marcus King; Grace Marsh; Sam Pelletier; Ajay Morris; Kiarra Matos; Jazmine (Jazz) McDonald; Lukas O’Boyle; Dario Prioleau; Brynn Krasney; Zach Shields; Nia Zagami

Performed at: 

• Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET), Baltimore, MD, May 2024
   
• UMBC Department of Theatre BlackBox, Baltimore, MD, May 2024

Modern Witches by Katie Kopajtic
Directed by Katie Hileman
Produced by Tres Brujas Productions

Bride-to-be Kate, an actress fueled by a self-tape audition to be Virginia Woolf, abandons her rehearsal dinner to get the audition off her chest. She settles in her haven, the mystic shop where she charges candles for a living, hoping that the magic around her will enhance her performance. Her pursuit of the perfect take morphs into an exploration of Woolf's posthumous injustices and queer but complicated affairs, mirroring her own anxieties about identity, love, and commitment.

A solo performance starring Katie Kopajtic as Kate.

Performed at: 

• Players Theatre, New York City, NY, May 2024
   
• Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh, Scotland, Summer 2023
   
• City Lore, a Smithsonian Affiliate, October 2022
   
• River's Edge Theatre Company (Co-Production), Dobbs Ferry, NY, Spring 2022
   
• The Barbershop Theatre, Nashville, TN, 2020
   
• Charm City Fringe Festival at Maryland Art Place Underground, Baltimore, MD, October 2019

Review Highlights:

“The writing is at times conversational, and then lyrical, and there are moments that could be straight out of a Monty Python sketch. It is clearly thoroughly and lovingly researched, but the information is folded in rather than center-stage.” - FringeReview, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED SHOW

Press/Other Reviews:

• The Quintessential Review, “Modern Witches: A Magical Blend of Woolf and Witchcraft” 

Scene 5: i have been called beautiful exactly one time in my life by Katie Hileman
Performed by Katie Hileman

This original monologue deals with beauty, attraction, and fatness. Originally a deleted scene from I Will Eat You Alive, this monologue became its own performance piece.

Performed at: 

• The Big Fat Variety Show at Rituals, Baltimore, MD, March 2020

Published in: 

• The Fat Zine, Issue Two (Print and Online), 2021

OLGA Presents: a Stand-Up Show!!! (or The Alibi Play) by Jen Diamond
Directed by Katie Hileman
Produced by OLGA (Jen Diamond & Pamela Hugi)

Comedy duo OLGA is super psyched to perform for you a brand new night of stand up comedy!!! Well, they would be psyched – except Jen’s boyfriend just broke up with her in a frozen yogurt shop. And Pam is unemployed and unable to buy a Bitcoin. And something really, really bad happened just a few hours ago and it might just change both of their lives forever. Half stand up, half theatre, The Alibi Play is a comedy that kaleidoscopes reality, fantasy, and friendship to figure out what it means to be a truly Good Person.

Starring Jen Diamond & Pamela Hugi

Performed at: 

• Baltimore Theatre Project, Baltimore, MD, June 2019
  Made possible by a 2019 Maryland State Arts Council Creativity Grant

Review Highlights:

The show was named one of the “Best Things To Do in Baltimore” by Baltimore Magazine in June 2019

Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels by Katie Hileman
Part of "Variations on Myth" 10-Minute Play Festival
Directed by Tess Huth
Produced by Rapid Lemon Productions

Two women named Before and After meet in a gym. They talk about their own bodies, each other's bodies, and fight over a slice of pizza. Does nothing really taste as good as skinny feels? Or is that just a myth fed to women to get them to hate themselves and each other?

Featuring Christine Demuth & Mani Yangilmau

Performed at: 

• "Variations on Myth" 10-Minute Play Festival at Baltimore Theatre Project, Baltimore, MD, May 2019

Review Highlights:

"Where political commentary had been a blade slashing in a single direction earlier in the evening, Nothing Taste as Good as Skinny Feels by Katie Hileman allowed us a sample of the pain our insecurities inflict on us, regardless of our weight, whether we are victimized for it or a victimizer.  As serious as this sounds, I enjoyed the surprise of seeing our first case of the amazing use of a prop, as Before (Mani Yangilmau) scarfed down a slice of cheese pizza, in an erotic fit of caloric passion." - Mandy Gunther (TheatreBloom)
 

Chlamydia by Katie Hileman
Directed by Katie Hileman
Produced by Interrobang Productions

Mae is single and ready to tingle... Based off of a story from a close friend of her contracting chlamydia from a Tinder hook up, Chlamydia reimagines Tinder as a game show host, leading Mae through different dates with The Fuckboys. The Fuckboys were all played by women, and their spoken text was taken from real screenshots provided to me by my close friend, and others, of their actual interactions with men on Tinder. Mae dates, she fucks, her vagina sings the cha-cha slide, but ultimately she learns that men are, and always will be, trash.

Featuring Aladrian Crowder Wetzel, Cara Hinh, Shubhangi Kuchibhotla, Rae Hample, and Meghan Taylor (Fells Point Corner Theatre); Alex Shade, Rae Hample, Shubhangi Kuchibhotla, Hannah Kelly, and Caitlin Weaver (Towson MFA)

Performed at: 

• Featured act in One Night Stand: A Sex Positive Cabaret at Fells Point Corner Theatre, Baltimore, MD, February 2019
   
• Towson Theatre MFA 2020 Cohort's Playwriting Showcase, Towson University, Towson, MD, December 2018

American Heifer By Katie Hileman
Performed by Katie Hileman
Produced by The Towson Theatre MFA 2020 Cohort

In January of 2019, the Towson Theatre MFA 2020 Cohort made a trip to study abroad in South Africa. Left mostly to our own devices on the trip, we, of course, came up with a last minute cabaret performance at a local cafe called The Drawing Room. Each cohort member presented a short piece. This was my piece inspired by my time spent in South Africa in a fat body (at the height of my eating disorder with a recently broken heart). This was one of the first pieces I ever shared publicly about my fatness, and set the course for my writing work moving forward.

This was a one night only event open to locals and other students on the trip. Very casual and stripped down. The title of the cabaret, American Heifer, was an inside joke amongst the cohort, but as I thought about what I wanted to present, the title seemed to resonate with me further than something just light-hearted, so it became the title of my monologue as well.

Performed at: 

• The Drawing Room, Observatory, South Africa, January 2019

the cable. By Katie Hileman
Directed by Katie Hileman
Produced by Interrobang Productions

Connected by jumper cables for the entirety of this 10-minute play, a couple navigates the overwhelming electricity of their relationship and connection to each other by jumping through time and form and a gas station.

There were no other set or props used to tell the story besides the jumper cables. Originally conceived as part of Single Carrot Theatre's 24-Hour Play Festival. This play was part of a one night only, sold out variety show called Charm City Nights on the Fringe.

Featuring Jessie Poole and David Brasington.

Performed at: 

• Charm City Nights on the Fringe at Baltimore Theatre Project, Baltimore, MD, June 2015
   
• Single Carrot Theatre's 24 Hour Play Festival, Baltimore, MD, Summer 2014