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Katherine Coyl

Director
Choreographer
Educator
Current Position
Chicago Fringe Opera
Director
Career Highlights/Education
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Columbia College Chicago
Graduate Certificate, Intimacy for Live Performance and Film, 2023-2024
Chicago College of Performing Arts
B.F.A , Theatre Performance, 2001-2005

Biography

(She/They) Kat Coyl is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist specializing in stage direction, intimacy direction & fight choreography, and teaching. With a background in acting, movement work, and pedagogy, they create consent-focused choreography and staging that empowers performers while enhancing overall storytelling.
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Experience

DePaul University

2024 - Present
Chicago, IL

Adjunct Faculty

2024 - Present
Teaching Acting to Vocal Performance Majors

Chicago Fringe Opera

Present
Chicago, IL

Director

Present
HERE BE SIRENS

IU Jacobs School of Music

2025 - 2025

Intimacy Director

2025 - 2025
Intimacy Director for Carmen

Projects and Media

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K. Coyl Fight Choreographer Reel
Fight Choreographer Reel
2025

Schedule

Recent Highlights

Ear Taxi Festival: Excerpts from "Here Be Sirens"
Director
Chicago Fringe Opera
October 17, 2025
October 17, 2025
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Ear Taxi Festival: Excerpts from "Here Be Sirens"
October 17, 2025
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Description

The Ear Taxi Festival 2025, themed “The Composer’s Voice,” is a landmark event showcasing contemporary concert music across Chicagoland.

This year’s festival will highlight over 500 artists in over 50 hours of programming, including large-scale Anchor Performances, Composer Showcases, Taxi Concerts, and Accent Concerts.

Chicago Fringe Opera’s Anchor Performance features three opera excerpts:

Here Be Sirens (Kate Soper) | On My Mind (Jasmine Barnes) | No One’s Child (Regina Baiocchi)

Kehrein Center

Event Type Other/Event
Contributors
Katherine Coyl

Katherine Coyl

Director

Oct 17, 2025
Dates
17
Oct, 25
Queers & Fears
Fight Director
YAS, And! Comedy
October 03, 2025 to October 24, 2025
October 03, 2025 to October 24, 2025
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Queers & Fears
October 03, 2025
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Description

Queers and Fears is a wickedly funny sketch comedy revue where the monsters are gay, the closets have skeletons, and the only thing we have to fear is our own internalized homophobia. From cursed hookups to ghost stories about being ghosted, this spooky celebration of queer survival blends sharp satire with blood-stained glitter. Come laugh, scream, and sashay into the shadows—because in this show, pride is a scream.

Event Type Other/Event
Contributors
Katherine Coyl

Katherine Coyl

Fight Director

Oct 03, 2025
Dates
3
Oct, 25

Biography

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Katherine Coyl

Katherine (Kat) Coyl is a professional director, choreographer, and teaching artist based out of Chicago. Their work includes multiple world premieres in both opera and dance. Their most recent work includes HERE BE SIRENS (Director) EarTaxi Festival, Hindsight (Intimacy and Fight Director) at Chicago Fringe Opera, Lenora (Intimacy and Fight Director) at Chicago Opera Theater, Breaking the Wave (Assistant Director and Intimacy Coordinator) at Detroit Opera; The Nose (Intimacy and Fight Director) at Chicago Opera Theater; Memoirs of Jazz in the Alley (Intimacy Director) at South Chicago Dance Theatre; The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turning (Intimacy and Fight Director) at Chicago Opera Theater; and Athena at Urbanite Theatre.

 

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Industry and Specialty

Opera Musical Theatre Higher Education Dance