Ketty Thurtus

Ketty was born and raised in New Jersey outside of NYC. She is employed as a clinical associate professor of psychiatry with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and as the Director of the Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Service at University Hospital. Ketty’s love of theater began at 7 years old as the “creative director, writer, choreographer, and producer” of home plays and musicals employing her younger siblings! Some of her happiest memories are spending Saturdays at a performing arts school in New Jersey (Performer’s Theater Workshop) in acting, vocal, and dance classes, and she stayed involved in theater productions through high school.

Ketty continues to foster her love of dance and theater by taking various dance classes, teaching choreography, and dance performances with Otimo Brazilian Dance with the Handphibians in addition to serving on the Forward Theater marketing committee.