She choreographed The Notebook on Broadway, she's the force behind The Agnes Index, and she's about to take on Wild Party at City Center. In this episode of Game Changers, Katharine Quinn sits down with director-choreographer Katie Spelman for a wide-ranging conversation about what it really takes to build a career behind the table. Katie gets candid about the moment she walked off stage for good, what associate life actually looks like when the wings are closed, and why she started counting the men and women on every Broadway creative team. Plus: Brigadoon, film & TV choreography, and a rapid fire round that goes fully off the rails.
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Director and Executive Producer
Katharine Quinn

Editor
Brian Truong

Photographer and Production Assistant
Olivia Kuan Romano

Post Production Supervisor
Jake Ropka

0:42 Meet Katie Spelman
1:06 Chicago Ballet Roots
5:14 Leaving the Stage
7:27 Finding Steven Hoggett
21:34 The Notebook Begins
30:43 Staging "I Want To Go Back"
32:41 Wild Party Preview
38:49 The Agnes Index
39:56 Who's Behind the Table?
54:29 Fixing Broadway's Power