A solo show about training the best and the worst of a luxury gym

You get the best life lessons from those that you teach. Katie’s always had a love/hate relationship with training thanks to the exhausting, complex and generous clients that have taught her as much about life as she has taught them how to squat. “Confessions” takes a deep dive into love and loss at the gym, going behind the scenes of the luxury fitness world and exploring the unconventional relationships that blossom within it.

Confessions​ has been in the works for two years, ever since Katie started writing her and her clients’ stories down. Around this time she fell in love with a gym member. Then, after a year of workshops and performances, Katie lost a close client to suicide. The settling of a new relationship combined with her grief added an emotional bloodline to the show that pushed it from niche-subject comedy to theatre for all. It went up at The Barrow Group, The Kraine Theatre, The Tank and The PIT before making its international, sold-out debut with the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Reviews

One of a kind! “She’s immensely likeable and her monologues give a strong sense that she’s talking with an audience rather than at them. This whole show feels like catching up with an old friend.” - BroadwayBaby

Raw! “There is something endearing about this show. There is raw emotion, and it promisingly demonstrated that relationships are precious.” - Voice Mag UK

Hilarious! “Confessions of a Personal Trainer funnels the upbeat energy you'd expect from a personal trainer into a hilarious look into the world of luxury fitness. The result is a heartwarming, slightly manic, and distinctly NYC love story. Katie Kopajtic makes me want to work out more… almost.” - Adam J. Kurtz, Artist + Author, One Page at a Time

Sharp! "Confessions of a Personal Trainer offers funny, sharp insights about the vulnerabilities of a woman whose job is to act invulnerable. - Joe Berkowitz, author + critic, Away With Words