Katy Fetrow
Scenic Designer — THE LONG WALK
Katy’s scenic design credits include A/B Machines (Carnegie Mellon), The Long Walk (Pittsburgh Opera), Ragtime (Carnegie Mellon), Gloria (Hatch Arts Collective), and August: Osage County (Footlight Club). Katy has assisted on designs for Indecent (Pittsburgh Public Theatre), The Guard (City Theatre), and Born Yesterday (Maltz Jupiter Theatre). TV and film credits include the production design for Jack and Diane (Independent film), and art department assisting for Orange is the New Black (Lionsgate Television, Tilted Productions). Her other creative work was featured in the concert series Voices of Women: From Unknown for Renowned (The Cell). She holds a BA in Interior Design from Kent State University.
Katy is originally from Youngstown, OH, is completing her MFA in Scenic Design at Carnegie Mellon University, and is now based in New York City.
THE LONG WALK was directed by Frances Rabalais for the Pittsburgh Opera in January 2018.
We felt that the world of the play needed to be unsteady, flexible, familiar and unfamiliar. It should have a potential for disaster, create moments of detachment, and appear fortified but still penetrable. There should be the sense of suspended weight, weightlessness and constant shifting. It was important that our audience be aware that this story is occurring in the main character’s, Brian’s, psyche. The director was passionate about creating an alienating, bordering on sci-fi, experience for Brian. She wanted him to feel detached from both family life and the war in Iraq. This inspiration sparked research into the connection between space and time, and ultimately led us to create a subliminal space connecting between two points or two realities; a wormhole.
