Kat Koppett

Kat Koppett is the co-founder and president of StoryNet, LLC, a company specializing in the use of theatre and story in organizational settings. Her book, Training to Imagine: Practical Improvisational Theatre Techniques to Enhance Creativity, Teamwork, Leadership and Learning, was published by Stylus Publishing Inc. in May, 2001, and a global edition, Training Using Drama, published by Kogan Page in 2002. Kat has designed and delivered training for dozens of companies including Oracle, Cadence Design Systems, Morrison-Foerster, Kaiser-Permanente, Sun Microsystems, and Microsoft. She has worked with doctors, lawyers, engineers, architects, teachers, administrators, executives and 5-year-olds.

Kat holds a B.F.A. in Drama from New York University and an M.A. in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University. She was instrumental in creating the corporate training wing of Freestyle Repertory Theatre, in New York, and developed and ran the Corporate Division of BATS Improv in San Francisco through 2004.

A member of the National Speakers' Association, Kat has presented for the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), the North American Simulation and Gaming Association (NASAGA), Influent, International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), the Rotary Club and the Young Presidents Organization.

In 1995, TheaterWeek Magazine named Kat one of the year's "Unsung Heroes" for her creation of the improvisational theater format, Spontaneous Broadway, which is now performed regularly all over the world. Her acting credits include the title role in The Diary of Anne Frank, both Off-Broadway and in the Soviet Union; Rosalind in As You Like It with the Manhattan Stage Company; and Fiddler on the Roof with Theodore Bikel. She has been seen in television ads for Pillsbury, Quaker Oats, and Dr Pepper (she was a Pepper!). In 1998, her short play, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, was a winner in Playground's Emerging Playwrights Festival. She is currently at work creating Albany Theatresports in Albany, NY.