KATE FUGLEI

Actress Kate Fuglei got her professional start at The Guthrie Theater. She has played leading roles on stages across America, including Mrs. Webb in Our Town for Tony Award winning director Michael Greif at the La Jolla Playhouse, and appeared as the Adult Woman u/s in the Broadway National Tour of Spring Awakening, directed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer. A Nebraska native, she was delighted to be in a new staging of Willa Cather’s My Antonia, directed by Scott Schwartz, with music by Stephen Schwartz. She has performed at America’s leading regional theaters: At the New York Shakespeare Festival, she played Maria in Love’s Labour’s Lost. She was Sonia in Arena Stage’s groundbreaking production of Crime and Punishment, directed by Yuri Lyubimov. She starred as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Utah Shakespearean Festival and played Emelia in Othello at the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival. She has also appeared at the McCarter Theatre, Seattle’s A.C.T. Theatre, the Portland Stage Company, and Minneapolis’s Illusion Theatre. With Ken LaZebnik and Leslie Steinweiss, she was a founding member of New York City’s theater company DearKnows, whose staging of James Joyce’s Dubliners stories played at Lincoln Center and Olympia Dukakis’s Whole Theater.

Kate has appeared in over thirty episodes of television, including Showtime’s Masters of Sex, N.C.I.S., Touch, The Event, Desperate Housewives, and in the films Muffin-Top: A Love Story, The Green Hornet, The Onion Movie, Escape From Polygamy, Amish Grace, The Day The World Ended and Nowhereland.

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I gre w up in Nebraska, so it is easy for me to empathize with Rachel’s sense of the prairie as both an overwhelming vastness and a claustrophobic confinement... Women still struggle between the poles of an unending horizon and a confined existence.”

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