Katya Campbell is a New York based actor and teacher whose Broadway credits include the Pulitzer Prize winning Disgraced, Roundabout Theatre Company's The Big Knife opposite Bobby Cannavale, Manhattan Theatre Club's Mauritius, and the Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. Most recently on Broadway she appeared in Manhattan Theatre Club's premiere of Amy Herzog's Mary Jane at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, directed by Anne Kauffman and starring Rachel McAdams, covering the title role along with the roles of Brianne and Chaya.
A founding member of the Colt Coeur theatre company, Katya has originated many roles in new plays Off-Broadway, including the title role in the Rattlestick Theater and Colt Coeur co-production of Cal in Camo alongside David Harbour and Paul Wesley. Her additional theatre credits include work at BAM, Cherry Lane, Rattlestick, Barrington Stage, Roundabout, and Manhattan Theatre Club.
On screen, she appears as Audrey in the Apple Original Films thriller Echo Valley, directed by Michael Pearce and written by Brad Ingelsby, with Julianne Moore, Sydney Sweeney, Kyle MacLachlan, Fiona Shaw, and Domhnall Gleeson. Her other film and television credits include Blindspot, Law & Order, Guiding Light, Archaeology of a Woman, The Crimson Mask, Girl on the Fridge, Small Outdoors, and Crazy Glue.
Katya holds an MFA from Rutgers University, where she trained with William Esper and Deborah Hedwall. She taught Meisner technique and audition technique at The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts for more than five years, and previously taught at Pace University, Rutgers, Barnard, and for the Oxbridge Program.
In Audition Technique at The Conservatory at NYPAA, Katya teaches from the position of an actor who is still auditioning and still booking. Students learn how to break down audition material fast, make a decisive choice and commit to it, handle a self-tape and a room with equal control, and take an adjustment without losing the work. She is direct with them about what the process actually is: an unglamorous, repeatable professional skill, separate from talent, that can be trained. Her own résumé, built substantially on understudying and covering lead roles at the highest level, makes her especially credible on preparation, readiness, and stepping in when the opportunity comes without warning.
