PRODUCTIONS
WHO WE ARE
Idea Man
Colin has spent his decade in the Bay Area constantly shifting back and forth between theater and film production, but the art monster in him goes way back.
He started at age five in rural Washington State, selling his own picture books out of his driveway, and never stopped. He became fascinated with multi-media genre-bending at an early age and has continually looked for ways to break down the barrier between theatre and film, exploiting and refining the subjective creative process through dozens and dozens of self-generated projects. After graduating with a film and theater degree from Eastern Washington University, he scooted off to the Bay, where he cut his teeth as a P.A. on several large-scale projects. From there, he began to create and develop his own projects with reckless abandon, starting several small theater groups and a freelance videography enterprise, primarily generating content for the fundraising and promotional efforts of local artists.
His artistic credits extend across the Bay, including Awesome Theatre (Artistic Director), Playground, The Curran, Circus Center, The Clown Conservatory, Shotz, Pianofight, Olympians, TAPAS Festival, EXIT Theatre, Actors Ensemble, The Open Mind School, Bay One Acts, BattleStache Studios, First Person Singular, SF Fringe Festival, Pegasus Books and Theatre Pub, to name a few. He has also published two short plays as well as a full-length graphic novel and he’s screened projects at multiple film festivals, including Comic-Con in San Diego.
Colin Johnson
Katie Whitcraft
Business Lady
Katie grew up in Alaska, where she began her arts career as an intern for the Alaska Theatre of Youth in Anchorage.
At the age of 18 she moved to New York to study theatre at New York University, attending studio training at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School. She worked on many productions while there, including assistant designing Love’s Labors Lost and Faust Off-Broadway, acting in Savage in Limbo and Macbeth, and producing a set of one-acts Off-Off-Broadway for the Tisch Talent Guild.
Katie later moved to Colorado. She continued her career in management, production, and performance roles with notable theatres such as the Wheeler Opera House, Theatre Aspen (fka Aspen Theatre in the Park), and Equinox Theatre. Katie also assisted in the programming and management of the acclaimed Wolfe Theatre Academy at the Mizel Arts and Culture Center for more than five years. At the same time, she earned a Masters degree in nonprofit management from the University of Denver.
In October 2010, Katie moved to San Francisco and joined Circus Center as its General Manager. She worked with Circus Center for 7 years bringing it into a new era as a thriving performing arts organization. She is now focusing her administrative and managerial talent on Troubleshoot Productions.