Bio

I have been told that I was carried out on stage during a curtain call when I was a baby, but I’m not sure I trust those reports. I have the photographic evidence to prove, however, that my first real role was as a giant Ham in a children’s theater production of East of the Sun, West of the Moon. After that auspicious start, I decided for a while that I would have to write my own plays if I didn’t want to get cast as a food product. While other kids were going to soccer games or the beach, I was enlisting all of the neighborhood kids to act in the plays that I put on in my backyard. There followed after that the usual string of children’s theatre, school, community theatre, and finally! professional productions, until I found myself in New York City, where I promptly threw myself into a string of truly strange day jobs and started going to (sometimes truly strange) auditions.

I am a passionate and savvy woman, with a combination of a redhead’s fire and an only child’s contemplative inclinations. I have a dry, sarcastic, and rather British sense of humor, a New Yorker’s drive, a Californian’s mellowness, and a Midwesterner’s warmth. I am a dedicated performer, and I am lucky to have received, and to be still receiving, some of the best training that there is.

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Originally from San Diego, Kate was chosen as a young actress to watch by San Diego Playbill before she left for college on the east coast. Favorite past credits include Noises Off, Arcadia, Lot’s Daughters, Furious Blood, As You Like It, The Distance From Here, and Quills. She graduated from Yale University with a BA in Theater, and is currently a proud student of Terry Schreiber.