About Kathleen
It’s an interesting feat to summarize a life well lived (so far) in a few clear and concise paragraphs, using keywords that’ll catch the algorithm but be interesting and unique enough to make you want to read to the end. It’s akin to writing my own obituary.
Here’s an attempt at a not-so extensive biography focusing mainly on my work and education. My hope is that the rest of the contents of this site can tell more of the story.
Thanks for reading !
I am honored to have spent most of my childhood and young adulthood in Quebec city with a short 7 year stint in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. When the time came to move out of my folks house, I decamped to Montreal where I completed my BFA with a Specialization in Theatre Performance. Upon graduation, I was lucky and relieved to land a touring job with Geordie Theatre. I was young but judiciously saved some money to travel. I went to Europe and the middle-East.
Once the travel bug was caught, I decided to try my luck at auditioning for schools in London UK. I was offered a spot at the Royal Central School for Speech and Drama in the Classical Acting program which proved to be one of the best years of my life. I had immediate friends for life, studied Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre (and Chekhov, and Butoh, and clowning and Stanislavski, etc.).
Although writing my thesis on Butoh as a performance practice in Classical theater was brutal to say the least, I was consoled by the fact that at the end of my studies I would travel to study at the MXAT theater school in Moscow, Russia for a two week theater intensive which invariably changed my life and my love of sauerkraut. My destiny had not yet closed the door on theater for young audiences and I booked another tour at Vienna’s English Theatre performing Molière at 9am in schools all across Austria; it was a military-like training ground and I was there for it.
In 2014 after having spent 6 years in London working in theater, creating a theater company, teaching yoga, walking dogs, writing (award winning monologues dare I say), traveling, I moved back to Montreal, with a hefty student loan and a hunger to keep pursuing my dream.
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Since then I have performed on stages such as the Centaur theater, La Chapelle, MAI. Namely in Imago’s production of Other People’s Children, Talisman’s Me & You, Clean Slate and the awarded Wildfire. I have been a familiar voice on the radio and face you may have seen on your TV screens on numerous commercials and primetime TV shows and films. I grew up as an anglo in Quebec city and was educated in French; I thank my parents everyday for this smart move.
Rare is the actor in Quebec who successfully makes the leap into French TV and Film. I am so grateful to be one of those actors who gets to work in both languages. Perhaps you have seen Le Temps des Framboises - on which I play Peggy Conley, a recurring character - which features French, English, Spanish, and LSQ. Rarely do “Les Deux solitudes” come together in such a symbiotic way on our television screens but we have learned that the audiences are ready for it. They are ready for diversity, for new and atypical faces, creative and bold choices, offbeat humor, deep and visceral vulnerability. My experiences and diverse upbringing have brought me to this point.
This is a story of a life well lived but it doesn’t tell the whole story, there’s much more to my life than in this bio obviously. I couldn’t possibly write it all down here because the artist that I am strives to live the full spectrum, the manifold experiences that are offered to her so that she can reflect that in her work.
That’s how I wish the audience receives my work…every actor’s work. With a whole life’s story, the good, the bad, the ugly in mind.
— coaching
I also coach other actors in revealing themselves and reflecting their full lives to the audience.
— yoga
Above I mentioned I taught yoga, you can contact me for more details about classes, privates and retreats..