“Have keyboard will travel” seems to be the credo of Butler native Catie Brown.

She just finished a stint playing keyboards for the Pittsburgh CLO production of “Peter Pan.”

She went from that to prepping for Thursday's opening of Saint Vincent College's Summer Theatre's final show, “Always … Patsy Cline.” She's the music director and piano player for the production.

She worked with everyone from Broadway and television actress Anita Gillette to Mrs. Huxtable herself Phylicia Rashad to playing with the venerable rock group Kansas.

“I'm the music director at St. Fidelis Roman Catholic Church,” Brown said. She makes the drive from her home in Hampton Township every weekend.

“I've gone there all my life,” she said. The daughter of Bill and Justine Brown of Butler graduated from Butler High School in 2005.

She earned a bachelor's degree in music education at Slippery Rock University and a master's degree in education from the University of Cincinnati.

Brown said, “I was an elementary music teacher for about six years in Kittanning and then in Homestead.”

“I was teaching during the day and working on musicals at night,” she said.

Then in 2015 she was hired for the production of the musical comedy “Altar Boyz” in the CLO Cabaret Theater, the smaller theater across the street from the Benedum, and eventually her elementary school teaching career ended as she began doing more and more theater work.

“I did end my elementary teaching career to work at Point Park/CLO/CLO Academy full time in 2015,” she said.

“I was teaching all day and playing shows in the evening. When the opportunity came to work at Point Park in their Conservatory of the Performing Arts, it allowed me to quit teaching and focus more on musical theater,” she said.

Her accompaniment experience is extensive and includes gigs with the Pittsburgh Musical Theater, the Pittsburgh CLO, the Pittsburgh Public Theater, the Pittsburgh Playhouse and Carnegie Mellon University.

“I've worked with her in the Cabaret Theater and as a rehearsal and pit musician for the past three seasons,” said Mark Fleischer, the producing director of the Pittsburgh CLO.

“On the last Saturday of the month we do a show tune night at the Cabaret Theater where everyone can get up and sing. I'm the host and she's the pianist, sort of like my Paul Schaefer,” he said.

“She's got a really dry wit,” Fleischer said. “And she's amazing. She can play anything you put in front of her.”

And then there are her academic positions. She's an adjunct professor of voice at Robert Morris University in Moon Township, Allegheny County, an accompanist in the School of Drama at Carnegie-Mellon University, as well as a voice/musical theater instructor at the Pittsburgh CLO Academy.

“I started playing in fourth grade at St. Fidelis. I started playing musicals at Butler High School in ninth grade,” said Brown.

She became music director at St. Fidelis in honor of her predecessor, Cookie Salak, a longtime piano teacher. She said, “ I stayed because of my family and her legacy. Everybody in Butler knew her. She was a force to be reckoned with.”

Brown has memories of some of the other people she's accompanied musically.

“Kansas played a show at the Benedum a couple of years ago and was accompanied by an orchestra,” she said. “And that was my first gig downtown. I played keyboard.

“We had a rehearsal in the morning and played with them that evening. They were on stage and we were behind them. It was a one-day kind of thing,” she said.

She also played accompaniment when Phylicia Rashad and “Pocahontas' composer Stephen Schwartz did separate visiting artist teaching stints at Carnegie Mellon University.

Her success makes a former collaborator happy.

Dale VanLaningham, a Butler High School teacher and director of its plays and musicals, has worked with Brown as both a student and as a graduate. “She did two shows with me after she graduated,” said VanLaningham. “She was a pianist all four years she was here.”

He added, “She pushes herself. She's very determined. She's a great pianist. I'm thrilled for her. She's doing very well. She's very successful.”

Brown doesn't see herself slowing down anytime in the near future.

“In the past month and a half I've worked on six different musicals,” said Brown.

“I teach at RMU in the morning and play a show at night,” she said.

“She's really versatile and dependable and a lot of fun,” said the CLO's Fleischer. “That's why we keep her around.”