Katie Plaisted has a passion for discipling those in the visual and performing arts to use their gifts to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ to those in darkness. 

Born in New York state, Katie was raised in an evangelical missionary family who used the performing arts to share the Gospel around the world. For eight years she was a part of the touring stage show “Illusion & Beyond”; and for over twenty years was trained in classical ballet and performance with seventeen of those years at Reign Dance Theater – a non-profit theatrical dance organization. Upon graduating as a homeschool student, Katie went on to achieve a Cinema Production Certificate as well as an Associates Degree in Cinema: Directing & Producing from the Minneapolis Community and Technical College – where her thesis film won in the 2012 Cinema Excellence Awards. After college, Katie founded her own video production company – Katie Travis Films, LLC – creating several narrative short films, two of which have also gone on as Official Selections in film festivals across the country. Her passion to pass on the skills she has learned to the next generation of blossoming artists and to inspire them to use their gifts to praise our Lord Jesus Christ with excellence and professionalism – brought her to teach filmmaking, acting, and storytelling at several homeschool co-ops between 2017-2020. During this time Katie also had the pleasure of leading a number of Jr. High girls discipleship groups, serve as a worship leader and youth leader at Church on the Hill (Chaska, MN), and be a youth counselor at Park Harbor Church’s Burn4Him kids camp. Today, Katie lives with her husband – Mitchel – in Deephaven, Minnesota where they raise their precious son, David, in addition to running Frontline Ministries Minnesota .