Katy Schwarzweller was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, where she began studying ballet at a young age. She left home in 2014 to train at The Rock School for Dance Education and soon after joined Ballet West, where she danced for many years in both the Professional Training Division and Trainee Program. While at Ballet West, Katy had the opportunity to dance with the main company and was featured in lead roles with the academy. She has had the chance to work with Balanchine repetiteurs on works including Violin Concerto, Valse Fantasie, and Walpurgisnacht, as well as working with repetiteurs to set Gerald Arpino’s Viva Vivaldi and Sir Frederick Ashton’s Les Patineurs.

In 2019, Katy joined the Second Company at Kansas City Ballet. She performed in corps de ballet productions including The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, and was a featured soloist in Parrish Maynard’s new ballet “Vectors”. In 2021, Katy joined Ballet Arizona’s Studio Company, where she danced alongside the company in Violin Concerto, Les Patineurs, The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Serenade, and Bourrée Fantasque. She joined Ballet Frontier in 2022 and performed lead roles in Giselle, as "Dew Drop" in The Nutcracker, Carmen, Endless by Lee Wei Chao, Paquita, Midsummer Night’s Eve, Romeo and Juliet, and The Sleeping Beauty. This is Katy’s inaugural season with Ballet Papillon, and she eagerly anticipates the future!