Quick Facts
Biography
Katie Goodman is an American musical satirist and comedian. She performs her solo show, “I Didn’t F*ck It Up” in New York Cityand around the world, and originated “Broad Comedy” a troupe of five women who perform musical satire and sketch in 1999.
Background
Katie Goodman graduated from University of Pennsylvania in 1990.
Katie Goodman and Soren Kisiel, a wife-husband team, are the creators, writers and directors of Broad Comedy that has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Boston, and Los Angeles, and won the Vancouver Fringe Festival
Katie Goodman is a Boston native, and the daughter of Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Ellen Goodman. In addition to Broad Comedy, Katie writes for O: The Oprah Magazine, is a nationally touring speaker, and is the author of Improvisation For The Spirit: Live A Creative, Spontaneous, and Courageous Life Using the Tools of Improv Comedy.
She was also the founder and producer of the National Women's Theatre Festival in
Los Angeles in the 90”s and an Artistic Director of the Philadelphia Women's Theatre Festival.
Awards and runs
Katie and Soren and Broad Comedy were nominated for an EPIC Award from The White House Project in 2010, as well as being nominated for the MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” for their unique work in theatre. They also won the “Pick Of The Fringe” Award at the Vancouver Fringe Festival in 2005.
Goodman performed at Showtime’s “The Green Room with Paul Provenza” taping in 2010.
Broad Comedy was featured at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland in the summer of 2010.
In April 2011, Katie Goodman and Soren Kisiel started the social activism awareness
site www.UnFuckitup.com due to the popularity of their hit “I Didn’t Fuck It Up.” It’s a place where social activists can come together to get inspired about how other people are changing the world. They award one “unfucker” of the month.