Kat Yen is a Taiwanese-American theater director who was born and raised in NYC. She has directed at Atlantic Theater Company, Ars Nova, Cherry Lane Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre and The Bushwick Starr, amongst others. Recent productions include Heart Strings by Lee Cataluna, Happy Life by Kathy Ng, Marisol by José Rivera, The Juniors by Noah Diaz and Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play by Anne Washburn with music by Michael Friedman and Liam Bellman-Sharpe.
Kat is currently the inaugural Directing Fellow at La Jolla Playhouse and residing in San Diego. She was an alumnus of Lincoln Center Directors Lab, a former Resident Director at The Flea Theater, the 2016-2017 Van Lier Directing Fellow at Second Stage, the recipient of the Mary Jean Parson Scholarship and the Cullman Scholarship in Directing, and the co-founder and former Artistic Director of Spookfish Theatre Company. She is also a teaching artist at Stella Adler Studio of Acting, LAByrinth Theater Company and Marymount Manhattan College. M.F.A. Directing: Yale School of Drama.