Kathryn Rossetter

Kathryn Rossetter is an award-winning writer and actress whose work spans stage, screen, and page. Her original full-length play Tacky Gardens was the 2025 winner of the Theatre Network of Texas POP! New Play contest and received its world premiere at Boerne Community Theatre. Her ten-minute play FORE! has been performed in the U.S. and the U.K., and was published in Chaotic Merge (Issue 7, Winter 2024). Rossetter's solo and short works include Shellacked (Westbeth Theatre), The Water Boy (Gilgamesh Short Play Festival), and the one-woman shows Ripe and Starving, Hysterical, Naked, the latter directed by Judith Ivey and performed at Cherry Lane, Westbeth, and The Westbank Café. She is the recipient of a Tennessee Williams Fellowship for the development of her solo work. Her writing has been published in The Manifest-Station, BabyBoomers.com, Gettysburg Magazine, and the anthology No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood. Her monologue “Please Marry My Dad” is featured in Frozen Women/Flowing Thoughts (Venus Theatre), and additional work has been presented in NYC's Theatre for the New City, the Hudson Valley Library Series, and beyond. In film Rossetter's acting credits include Fearless, Speed 2: Cruise Control, Death of a Salesman (dir. Volker Schlöndorff), Whatever, and many more. Television appearances on Law & Order: SVU, Touched by an Angel, and Full House, and Kate and Allie to name a few. On Broadway, she has appeared in Death of a Salesman opposite Dustin Hoffman, Time of the Cuckoo, and Shows for Days. Off-Broadway and regionally, her performances span from Arthur Miller to Eric Bogosian, including a New York Innovative Theatre Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress.

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MORE ABOUT ME:
To me, theatre is the art of “live” storytelling, reflecting the human condition in all it’s messiness, challenges and joy. I always love rehearsal where we discover the truth and bond with our fellow artists in pursuit of the same goal–to take the writers world from 2 dimensions on the page and make it live in three dimensions on the stage. Move an audience to laughter or tears so they leave the theatre enriched. When I was 12, I was part of a local ballet production of Sleeping Beauty. Before a rehearsal I was sitting alone in the back of the theatre, the ghost light still on stage. In that moment, as I looked around that beautiful old theatre, breathing in its magic, I knew I wanted to spend my life in such places, waiting to create. As time went by and I was busily acting in different mediums, I began to feel that as a woman, I had a perspective that I wasn’t getting to play. I began to write attempting to create what I felt was missing. Over time I have found my voice, and the joy I feel when I create the heart and soul of an imaginary human always surprises me. I look for the small moments that become universal. The “tender mercies” and especially the humor and madness of everyday life. When not writing, I am addicted to NFL Football, specifically the Pittsburgh Steelers. I love “The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat” and the instant comradery of a shared community of dedicated fans. The art of the game encompasses all of life’s lessons. It’s an investment in something far outside myself and yet I feel it in the depth of my being. It’s always rewarding even in its disappointments. Just like life.

WHAT I'M WORKING ON :
A full-length play, a one-act play, and a screenplay at present.

KEYWORDS:
​Comedy, truth, heart, universal, human, aging, women, surprising, risk, imaginative.