About Caitlyn
Caitlyn Herzlinger is a fight director, intimacy director, educator, and arts administrator whose work spans professional theatre and higher education. She is passionate about creating dynamic, story-driven physical storytelling while fostering rehearsal spaces built on collaboration, safety, and trust.
Her professional credits include the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, New Stage Theatre and numerous regional theatres and universities, where she has served as both Fight Director and Intimacy Director. Her work emphasizes choreography that is grounded in character, advances the narrative, and empowers actors to take creative risks with confidence.
Caitlyn serves as Associate Director for Student Success & Strategic Initiatives and Associate Professor of Theatre in the School of Performing and Visual Arts at The University of Southern Mississippi. She is a Certified Teacher and Fight Director with the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD) an Associate Instructor with Dueling Arts International and a certified yoga teacher.
Whether in the rehearsal hall or the classroom, Caitlyn is committed to helping artists tell bold, honest stories through intentional physical storytelling.
For more information about Caitlyn view or download her resumé below.
Resume
Summer 2026
The Utah Shakespeare Festival, Cedar City, Utah.
Hamlet | Director Beth Lopes.
Twelfth Night | Director John DiAntonio (Artistic Director)
Something Rotten! | Director Alan Muraoka (Actor from Sesame Street)
Fall 2025
New Stage Theatre (Stunt Work)
The Play That Goes Wrong | Directed by Malaika Quarterman
Summer 2023
The Utah Shakespeare Festival, Cedar City, Utah.
Coriolanus | Director Lisa Peterson (Obie Award winning director).
Timon of Athens | Director Lisa Peterson
Raisin in the Sun | Director Derek Livingston
Emma the Musical | Director Valerie Rachelle.
Greenshow | Director Britannia Howe
Summer 2022
The Utah Shakespeare Festival, Cedar City, Utah.
Clue | Director Hunter Foster (Tony nominated actor)
The Tempest | Director Cameron Knight.
Trouble In Mind | Director Melissa Maxwell.
Sound of Music | Director Kennon Hooks.
Greenshow | Director Cassie Abate.
Summer 2021
The Utah Shakespeare Festival, Cedar City, Utah.
Ragtime | Director Brian Vaughn
Cymbeline | Director Britannia Howe
Comedy of Terrors | Director Brian Vaughn
Pirates of Penzance | Director Cassie Abate.
Spring 2019
New Stage Theatre, Jackson, Mississippi.
Sweat | Director Francine Thomas Reynolds.
Fall 2023
Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre Assisting Paul Dennhardt.
Sherwood, The Adventures of Robinhood | Director Daniel Harray.
Summer 2022
The Utah Shakespeare Festival, Cedar City, Utah. Assisting Paul Dennhardt
King Lear | Director Vincent J. Cardinal.
Sweeney Todd | Director Brad Carroll.
All’s Well that Ends Well | Director Melinda Pfundstein.
Winter 2022
The Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Montgomery, Alabama. Assisting Paul Dennhardt
Macbeth | Director Rick Dildine.
Summer 2021
The Utah Shakespeare Festival, Cedar City, Utah. Assisting Paul Dennhardt
Richard III | Director Cameron Knight.
The Comedy of Errors | Director Vincent J. Cardinal.
Pericles | Director Kent Thompson.
Summer 2020
The Utah Shakespeare Festival, Cedar City, Utah.
Hired for intimacy and fights, season cancelled due to Covid.
Summer 2019
The Utah Shakespeare Festival, Cedar City, Utah. Assisting Paul Dennhardt
Macbeth | Director Melissa Rain Anderson.
Hamlet | Director Brian Vaughn.
The Conclusions of Henry VI: Parts Two and Three |Director Henry Woronicz
Winter 2019
People’s Light Theatre, Malvern, PA. Assisting Paul Dennhardt.
Sweat | Director Elena Araoz.
Summer 2018
The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Cold Springs, Ny.
The Heart of Robin Hood | Fight Director Ryan Bourque, Director Suzanne Agin
The Utah Shakespeare Festival Resident Intimacy Director
2026 Season
See How They Run | Directed by Geoffrey Kent
She Loves Me | Directed by Michael Perlman
Something Rotten! | Directed by Alan Muraoka
2023 Season
Coriolanus | Director Lisa Peterson
Timon of Athens | Director Lisa Peterson
Raisin in the Sun | Director Derek Livingston
Emma the Musical | Director TBD
Romeo and Juliet | Director Betsy Mugavero
A Midsummer Night’s Dream| Director Jessica Kubzansky
Greenshow | Director Britannia Howe
2022 Season
Clue | Director Hunter Foster
The Tempest | Director Cameron Knight
Trouble In Mind | Director Melissa Maxwell
Thurgood | Director
Sound of Music | Director Kennon Hooks
Greenshow | Director Cassie Abate
King Lear | Director Vincent J. Cardinal
Sweeney Todd | Director Brad Carroll
All’s Well that Ends Well | Director Melinda Pfundstein
2021 Season
Intimate Apparel | Directed by Tashia A. Jones.
Ragtime | Director Brian Vaughn
Cymbeline | Director Britannia Howe
Comedy of Terrors | Director Brian Vaughn
Pirates of Penzance | Director Cassie Abate
Greenshow | Directed by Britannia Howe
Pericles | Directed by Kent Thompson
Richard III | Director Cameron Knight
The Comedy of Errors | Director Vincent J. Cardinal.
Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre
Fall 2023
Sherwood, The Adventures of Robinhood | Director Daniel Harray
Summer 2025 – Elephant and Piggy We’re in a Play | USM
Fall 2023 – The Addam’s Family Musical | USM
Spring 2022 – She Kills Monsters | USM
Fall 2020 – We’re Still Here | USM
Fall 2019 – Wolves | USM
Fall 2018 – The Emerging Artist Series | USM
The Three Musketeers
Cabaret
The Night of the Iguana
We’re Still Here
Ah Wilderness
I Hate Hamlet, Watson
Is God Is, Big Fish
The Colored Museum
Othello