ABOUT Kristen
A SoCal native, Kristen graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 2011, with concentrations in Theater and Music. She made her Los Angeles debut in the fall of 2012 as Little Sally in Fraggled Productions' Urinetown: The Musical at the Lounge Theater. Shortly after, she played Mandy in the pilot episode of the webseries Princess Business (IMDb). She played Logainne Schwarzandgrubenierre in Fraggled's 2014 production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at the Cupcake Theater in Hollywood. Her festival debut followed the next month in the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwright's (ALAP) first contribution to the Hollywood Fringe Fest: Sex, Lies, and Social Media-- a collection of short plays, in which she played Jen in Lorin Howard's Uncomfortable Sex. She played Josephine, the framed housewife, in the film noir The Deep Feint, as well as performed in a staged reading of auto-biographical poems by Marilyn Beker titled This Narrow Ledge. In 2016, Kristen was honored to have a starring role in Marcie Maxfield's playwriting debut, Girls Together Always, which received a Producer's Award from the Hollywood Fringe Festival. She then toured for 3 seasons on a children's show that toured to elementary and middle schools called, The Power of One, all while working for various party companies like Enchanted Party Tales to play princesses and other fairytale characters.
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, she regularly performed improv comedy with her Pack Theater house team, Nuisance, throughout LA, and has performed stand-up at various venues including The World Famous Comedy Store's Main Room, and Westside Comedy Theater.
During the pandemic, she began voiceover coaching with VO pro Robin Reed, and just recorded her first professional demo!
Other credits include:
Regular contributor to Brain Buzz.
Originated role of Shannon in Bonderman for Youth National Playwriting Award-winning spoken-word play somebody's children by Jose Casas.
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, she regularly performed improv comedy with her Pack Theater house team, Nuisance, throughout LA, and has performed stand-up at various venues including The World Famous Comedy Store's Main Room, and Westside Comedy Theater.
During the pandemic, she began voiceover coaching with VO pro Robin Reed, and just recorded her first professional demo!
Other credits include:
Regular contributor to Brain Buzz.
Originated role of Shannon in Bonderman for Youth National Playwriting Award-winning spoken-word play somebody's children by Jose Casas.
