Biography
Born on 10 March, 1990, Katharyn R. King is an actress, singer, writer and director. From an early age, she enjoyed acting and singing and soon earned such familiar roles as Dolly Levi from Hello, Dolly!, Miss Hannigan from Annie, and Adelaide from Guys and Dolls. Miss King acted in more than seven main stage plays, competed in several theatre competitions, stage-managed six school productions and most recently, one professional ballet with Center Stage Dance Studios based out of Corona. She is most widely recognized for her performances as Miss Meyermyer from Lindsay Price's Christmas parody, Deck the Stage, Martha Dobie from the controversial Hellman tragedy The Children's Hour, Hecuba from Euripides' The Trojan Women, Ruth from Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Lettice Douffet from Peter Shaffer's Lettice and Lovage.
Preferring character roles to straight ones, high comedy to low, it is no wonder that she has a flair for both classical and contemporary English plays.
The summer before her terminating year in secondary school, she enlisted in the United States Army Reserve for personal reasons. Unable to depart for Basic Combat Training until she graduated from school, King continued her studies in Advanced Theatre Arts under the auspicious of Theatre Director Meridith Stempinski.
A graduate of Centennial High School in Corona, California, King left her alma mater sporting High Honours for Academic Excellence as well as Honours from the International Thespian Society for Outstanding Excellence in Theatre Arts, and has accrued over 2400 hours of acting and technical experience and training in this field within the span of three years. Katharyn also served as Secretary/Treasurer of ITS Troupe #5004 her senior year. She received the 2007 and 2008 Most Promising (Junior and Senior years respectively) Award from the Centennial High School Theatre Department, the Presidential Education Award for Outstanding Academic Excellence in Theatre of 2008, and the 2008 Bank of America Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Drama. She has also penned a play of her own, which is entitled The Broken Spirit, Blind.
An avid writer, she is also known for her prolific authorship of over thirty short stories to date and her collection continues to grow. Some of her more famous stories are "Elise," "Lessons Learned While Falling Off the Earth," "Painted Blind," "Erasure Complex," and "Apart." Along with short fiction, King's poetry has attracted much acclaim as well, earning her the 2008 New Jersey Live Poets Society Topical Award for her poem "Penury's Song" and the International Society of Poets Editor's Choice Award for both "Penury's Song" and "Vitals."
Although accepted to Richmond University in London out of high school, financial hardship compelled King to enroll at the California State University in San Bernardino, California where she spent her first college term majoring in Theatre Arts with an Emphasis in Theatre Education and a minor in French. She became an active member of Players of the Pear Garden, San Bernardino's Drama Club, and was the only freshman to be cast in Dr. Terry Donovan Smith's production of Moliere's The Miser in November 2008.
Again, a longing to return to a life of civil service incited King to return to her duties in the military, this time on Active Duty. She served in the Army's Military Intelligence Corps as a Cryptologic Linguist, and has just returned to California from Australia to pursue a career in Theatre.
She most recently appeared in a production of Pride and Prejudice, directed by Chuck Ketter.
Ms. King is engaged to her partner, Pamela Glaudel.
