A Biography
Kat is a Two-time Emmy-winning choreographer, actress, director who is also is the co-founding Choreography Governor of the Television Academy and founding President of the Choreographers Guild. She got her start studying improv at Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater LA and gravitates towards stories driven by humor with movement that is authentic yet just off of center; perfectly unperfect as she says.
She has choreographed more than 200 episodes of TV including Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2016 & 2019 Emmy winner for Outstanding Choreography), The Simpsons, Reno 911, The Other Two, Key & Peele, The Morning Show, The Afterparty, Dancing With The Stars, Drunk History, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, and many more. She choreographed THAT Debutant scene in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, UCB’s first feature film Freakdance, and Sundance winning short films Say Hi After You Die, and Thunder Road.
She has worked with numerous artists including, Dolly Parton, Pharrell Williams on the “Happy“ music video (Grammy winner for Best Music Video Of The Year), Logic, Carly Rae Jepsen, Taboo (Black Eyed Peas), Weird Al Yankovic, Lil’ Dicky, Bonnie McKee, and once cried on a couch while Bruno Mars fed her ice cream for Funny Or Die.
For the stage, she directed, choreographed, and even performed alongside her CXG cast for Rachel Bloom Live at Radio City Musical Hall. They took the show on the road and concluded at the iconic London Palladium. She has worked with the Geffen, Music Theater West, Cabrillo Music Theater and IAMA Theater.
She has been a performer at the prestigious Upright Citizens Brigade LA for more than a decade, where she currently hosts/produces a variety show called The Raggle Taggle Dance Hour. Previously, she co-created/ produced their longest running monthly musical mainstay “Quick & Funny Musicals”. The Q&F team was an official selection of the New York Musical Theater Festival, The San Francisco SketchFest, and Edinburgh Fringe Fest. Her short film “Bulimia: The Musical” was an official selection of 14 film festivals and won 2. She enjoys being in front of the camera, at times, and has had the opportunity to act on Drunk History, Adam Ruins Everything, Key & Peele, Another Period, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend name a few; even playing herself opposite Dolly Parton in her made for TV movie Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas.
If you have gotten this fair thanks so very much for the interest and time. Is this bio too long? Perhaps, and does she feel icky talking about herself in third person? Yes duh, it’s supes cheugy. But she loves what she does and is better in the room, I promise.
-Kathryn (or Kat as people like to call her)
