Caitlin Shetterly

CAITLIN SHETTERLY is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Winter Harbor Theatre Company in Portland, Maine.

In addition to her work as a sometime actress and the A.D. of WHTC, she moonlights as a freelance journalist and contributing producer to National Public Radio and Public Radio International. She wrote, for three and a half years, a bi-weekly column, "Bramhall Square," for the Portland Phoenix. Her book Fault Lines: Stories of Divorce was published by the Putnam Berkley Group in 2001.

As the Artistic Director of the Winter Harbor Theatre Company, she produces and directs works that attempt to tackle the important issues of our time. Her inaugural project with WHTC was Tony Kushner's "Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Remain Unhappy" an at-the-time unfinished work that warned against the impending Iraq war. Since then, Caitlin designed and implemented the acting program at the Long Creek Youth Development Center (Southern Maine's juvenile jail), where she stages productions of Shakespeare adapted and performed by the youths. These productions have included Hamlet, Othello, and "A Hip-Hop Romeo and Juliet."

In 2004 she conceived WHTC's "Letters to..." series with "Letters to Ohio," in response to the election, which had two Portland runs of all original works by performers and writers from Maine, NYC and Boston. In December of 2005, she continued the 'Letters' series with "Letters to Katrina," which the Maine Sunday Telegram named one of the "10 Best Art Events in Maine in 2005." In June of 2006 "Letters to Baghdad" premiered to much acclaim and packed houses in Portland, was called "Provocative and Powerful" by the Portland Press Herald, and included performers from Los Angeles, NYC, Washington DC and Maine. In June 2007 she premiered "Letters to the NRA" in Portland, ME.

Caitlin is a Native Daughter, born and raised in down east Maine. After a year in Paris she attended Brown University where she graduated with honors in American Literature. She lived, until 2003, in New York City where she worked as a producer, director, actress and writer. She moved home to Maine in the spring of 2003. She makes her life in Portland with her husband the photographer and filmmaker Daniel E. Davis and with their dog Hopper and cat Ellison.