Actress Katie Gilchrist finds variety is her spice in life
By ROBERT TRUSSELL
The Kansas City Star
Katie Gilchrist spent some time acting in New York but prefers Kansas City because it offers more work. Some weeks, she is busy every night.
In the theater world, many of the old categories are breaking down, and more and more artists are refusing to be pigeonholed.
Actors aren’t just actors anymore. Some are actors and singers and songwriters and playwrights and producers and directors. And if that gets too cumbersome, they can always opt to call themselves “generative artists.”
Which brings us to Katie Gilchrist, an actress who has built an impressive résumé in the last few years performing in a wide range of shows at the Unicorn Theatre (“Intimate Apparel,” “Bright Ideas”), the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre (“Hedda Gabler,” “The Time of Your Life”) and Kansas City Actors Theatre (“Translations”).
At the moment she’s appearing in the MET’s production of “Enchanted April,” a delicate piece about British women vacationing in Italy in the 1920s, and will immediately segue into something quite different: the company’s season-closing production of “The Who’s Tommy.”
But that’s not all she has been up to. TO READ MORE OF ROBERT TRUSSELL’S Article on Katie Gilchrist click on the link below:
http://www.kansascity.com/2011/04/16/2801112/actress-finds-variety-is-her-spice.html
By ROBERT TRUSSELL
The Kansas City Star
Katie Gilchrist spent some time acting in New York but prefers Kansas City because it offers more work. Some weeks, she is busy every night.
In the theater world, many of the old categories are breaking down, and more and more artists are refusing to be pigeonholed.
Actors aren’t just actors anymore. Some are actors and singers and songwriters and playwrights and producers and directors. And if that gets too cumbersome, they can always opt to call themselves “generative artists.”
Which brings us to Katie Gilchrist, an actress who has built an impressive résumé in the last few years performing in a wide range of shows at the Unicorn Theatre (“Intimate Apparel,” “Bright Ideas”), the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre (“Hedda Gabler,” “The Time of Your Life”) and Kansas City Actors Theatre (“Translations”).
At the moment she’s appearing in the MET’s production of “Enchanted April,” a delicate piece about British women vacationing in Italy in the 1920s, and will immediately segue into something quite different: the company’s season-closing production of “The Who’s Tommy.”
But that’s not all she has been up to. TO READ MORE OF ROBERT TRUSSELL’S Article on Katie Gilchrist click on the link below:
http://www.kansascity.com/2011/04/16/2801112/actress-finds-variety-is-her-spice.html