About

Katie Stirman is a multi-creative artist from Miami, FL. She is known mainly for her work with Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre, beginning in 2010. Her family's business of rope manufacturing and industrial lifting grants her interesting skill sets when it comes to dance and theater, which is why collaborators have been known to call her Miami’s “best kept secret”. She brings to the table an array of skills that are rarely combined. Stirman has worked with a vast array of artists from different disciplines, entering rolls as dramaturge, artistic director, choreographer, photographer, film maker, set designer, engineer, fabricator, puppeteer, and dancer. Miami Light Project awarded her first grant through their Here & Now theater residency in 2017 that launched her exploration into set design. Miami Artist Monica Lopez De Victoria began exploring with Stirman in artistic swimming over the pandemic which solidified her radical physicality and natural affinity for weightlessness, while serving as dramaturge and choreographer in Lopez De Victoria’s O’ Miami commissioned performance, “Submerging Geometry” 2021-22. Her newest collaboration in large scale rope sculptures with rope artist and mother, Kandi Stirman, challenges her need for complex projects, executing grand designs and installing in hotels, restaurants, and cruise vessels internationally.