Katie Spallone

Katie Spallone is a long time Ithaca retailer as well as theatre goer, feminist, acting instructor, social media marketing specialist, animal lover and more. She has worked on stage and behind the scenes with just about every theatre company in town (favorite roles include Sabrina Daldry in In The Next Room with Homecoming Players (Kitchen Theatre). Katie has been a member of The Actor’s Workshop of Ithaca (a Sanford Meisner Technique theatre training studio) since 2001, became an instructor in 2005, and was named its Co-Director in 2010. She continues to use theatre as a platform for bringing diverse and underrepresented voices in the community into the studio classroom and on stage.

After closing her two downtown Ithaca clothing stores (Evolution and Avanti) in 2015, she joined the staff of Cornell Retail Services in 2016 and is currently the Visual Display & Merchandising manager for all Cornell Store locations. Katie lives in Dryden with her husband Michael and their cat Rosie.