Kathy Hsieh
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Actor, Director, Producer, Writer
Based in Seattle, WA
AFTRA, SAG-eligible, formerly AEA
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Artist's Stats & Personals
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5'3"
Black
Brown
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September 15
Logan, UT
Piano
Flute
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Artist's Bio
In addition to ReAct, Kathy has acted with the Seattle Repertory
Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, Book-It, Intiman, The Group, Empty Space,
Northwest Asian American Theatre, Tacoma Actors Guild, Taproot
Theatre Company, Freehold and many more.
An award-winning actor, director, and writer, Kathy is also a
founder, producer, creator, writer and actor with SIS Productions'
hit episodic show - Sex in Seattle.
Kathy can also be seen in numerous industrials, educational videos
and CD-roms as well as several films including Fortune Hunters,
Alone, Boy Wonderz, Dear Little Sweet Thang Nita, Beacon Hill Boys,
Birthright, Valentine's Day and the documentary Motherhood Manifesto.
She can be heard in the audiobooks Stealing Time and Reflecting the
Sky. Other past acting credits include: Snow Falling on Cedars, FOB, The Laramie Project,
Letters to a Student Revolutionary, The Three Musketeers, And the
Soul Shall Dance, A Christmas Carol, Oklahoma!, The Comedy of Errors,
Miss Minidoka 1943, Romeo & Juliet, Who Killed the Dragon Lady,
Voices of Christmas, Hay Fever, and many more. She also toured for 8
years with the award-winning Living Voices doing over 1,000
performances of Within the Silence around the country.
Kathy can be seen monthly covering the local theatre scene on the Seattle Channel's Art zone in Studio with Nancy Guppy. www.seattlechannel.org
As a director, Kathy has also worked with SIS, the Northwest Asian
American Theatre, Annex, Pilgrim Center for the Arts, and others, and
won Best of the Fest for David Henry Hwang's Sound of a Voice in the
New City Theatre's Directors' Festival. Her other directing credits
include: Dance & the Railroad, The Odd Couple, Twinkle, The Big Nisei
Broadcast and Unvanquished as well as numerous readings.
Kathy's scripts have been performed or read in Vancouver, B.C., Minneapolis, Chicago and Seattle. She has also been features in The Dramatist Magazine as "50 to Watch."
By day she works at the Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs for
the City of Seattle.
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Kathy with T.J. Langley in ReAct's To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday. March 2006
Photo: David Hsieh.
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Kathy with Masumi Hayashi-Smith and Katie Tupper in a scene from ReAct's The Joy Luck Club. January 2003.
Photo: Rick Wong.
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