Caitlin Ryan O’Connell is a theater director and teaching artist based in Brooklyn.  She has directed and developed work at Little Island, Clubbed Thumb, The Bushwick Starr, The Public, Ars Nova, The Lark, Roundabout, New Georges, The Hearth,  Fault Line Theatre, Montana Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and The Denver Center. In 2018, Caitlin co-created a Senior Center Storytelling program with Rachel Kauder Nalebuff supported by The Bushwick Starr.  She teaches theater classes in senior centers throughout Bushwick and mentors artists who join the program as co-teachers. She has also taught at NYU's Playwrights Horizons Theater School, The New School, Wellesley College, Powerhouse Theater Training Company, The National Theatre Institute, and with the International Theatre Project in Rwanda. Caitlin is New Georges affiliated artist and a two time Audrey Resident.  She was a finalist for the 2025 Barbara Whitman Award. She is a former Clubbed Thumb directing fellow, Actors Theatre directing apprentice, New Georges Jam member, and alum of Lincoln Center Theater's Directors Lab 2017. BA Wellesley College, MFA Brown University. ​ Caitlin is represented by Sam Barickman at CAA (sam.barickman@caa.com).