Dodie Montgomery earned her BA in Theatre and Dance at the University of Wyoming and her MFA in Acting at the University of Texas at Austin. She has worked extensively with many theatre companies, of special note are Book-It Repertory Theatre Company, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Open Circle Theatre Company, Snowy Range Summer Theatre Company, Fusion Theatre Company, and Tricklock Company. She has been teaching acting and theatre for over twenty years. She is an actor, writer, producer, director for film and theatre, and a visual artist. She has appeared on stage in Krakow, Poland - Belgrade, Serbia , and Beijing, China. She can be seen on Netflix’s Longmire, NBC’s The Night Shift, AMC’s Manhattan, NBC’s The Brave. In film you can find her in I Am That (winner of the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival – Best New Mexico Narrative Feature) , A Can Full of Ashes, releasing 2023 and The Dust Monologues, LUCID, and Hello Out There!. Dodie is a proud member of SAG/AFTRA and EMC. Theatre directing credits include: Gloria at Actor’s Studio 66 for which she was nominated for best director by Broadway World. Family Tree and Me at CNM, Box of Teeth at Fusion Theatre, The Day Room at UNM, Big Love, The Velocity of Gary, and Cowboys are My Weakness at Tricklock Company. She is an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico and Central New Mexico Community College and she is a certified instructor for The Takeda Technique. Dodie is also a reader/respondent for the McKnight Playwright’s Center Core Writer’s Program. She is also the Chair for The Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival’s New Playwriting Program for Region 6.