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Katie Arnstein is a writer and performer from the West Midlands. Her work includes the multi-award-winning storytelling trilogy It’s a Girl! which consists of Bicycles and Fish, Sexy Lamp and Sticky Door. These shows have been awarded Show of the Week at VAULT Festival twice, Pleasance Pick of VAULT, an Offie Commendation for a short run and been shortlisted for both The Popcorn Prize and The Evening Standard’s Future of Theatre Award. The shows were created with directors Daniel Goldman and Ellen Havard and produced by Beccy D’Souza.

Her newest stage show The Long Run has been nominated for an Offie Award for Best Performance Piece and Show of the Week at VAULT. The Long Run is directed by Bec Martin will be touring the UK in 2024.

Wolverine Woman is Katie’s first television commission and it will be coming to BBC Three and Iplayer in October 2023. Wolverine Woman stars Olivia Swann and was directed by Clare Anyiam-Osigwe.

Katie is an Associate Artist of Pleasance Theatre, London and is currently working with them to create a new show for stage, Dirge.

Katie has just been announced as one of five finalist in the Arts category for the Women of the Future Awards.

“I would describe Katie Arnstein as a voice of a generation, but she isn’t. Because I am nearly 20 years older than her and yet her work speaks to me in a visceral way. So she’s at the very least the voice of several generations.”

Emma Burnell – View From The Cheap Seats

Other work includes Half Acre as part of Popelei’s Press Play season which has been nominated for a 2020 Offie and Embarrassed for Popelei’s Women in Lockdown which was included in The Guardian’s Best 8 monologues of lockdown.

Arnstein also did her Gold Duke of Edinburgh at school and that was so hard she is still telling people about it. The Guardian wrote “Arnstein is a performer primed for greatness” whilst her Grandad Ron said she is “daft as a brush.” 

It’s a Girl! is supported by Arts Council England, Redbridge Drama Centre, Pleasance Futures and VAULT Festival.

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