Author Profile:  Kathleen Wallace

Kathleen Wallace fell in love with the theater around the same time she learned to walk.  Her father, an English and drama teacher/technical director, would tell her bedtime stories that were plots of major plays, many of them by Shakespeare.  Her father and mother, also an educator, took her to see plays from a young age, and Kathleen began writing, performing and directing her own plays in kindergarten.  When in the sixth grade she read in US News and World Report that Yale was the place to go if you wanted to study theater, she told her parents that’s where she was going to college.  Six years later — and after a year as an exchange student in Germany — Kathleen started at Yale, from which she graduated with a BA with distinction in History and Theatre Studies.  Kathleen has performed regionally at such venues as the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.  Favorite roles include Catherine in Proof, Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker and The Patient in the world premiere of Dennis Lehane’s (author of Mystic River) play Coronado, which was selected as a NY Times Critics Pick.  Kathleen has taught at the Denver Center Theatre Academy and at Cap 21/NYU in NYC.  She is also experienced in writing, directing and producing as well as in stand-up comedy (performance venues include Gotham Comedy Club in NYC) and improv comedy (performance venues include Second City in Chicago).  She holds an MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.  For more about Kathleen, please see her website.