Katie Kleiger

Katie Kleiger is a performer, writer, and musician who grew up in the DC area. She has honed her craft at theatres across the country, including both regional and off-Broadway performances. Learn more about Katie’s experience below and what it means to be part of Everyman’s Resident Company.

BIOGRAPHY:

[EVERYMAN THEATRE]: (Resident Company Member) Deceived, POTUS, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Sense and Sensibility, Steel Magnolias, Baltimore, It’s Me, Proof, Importance of Being Earnest, and Dancing at Lughnasa. [OFF-BROADWAY]: McKittrick Hotel: Sleep No More; New York City Center: Ring Twice for Miranda; Soho Playhouse: The Fall. [REGIONAL]: Arena Stage: Death on the Nile (Premiere), Mosaic Theater Company: Unseen; Rep. Theatre of St. Louis: Pride and Prejudice; Philadelphia Theatre Company: Everything is Wonderful; Studio Theatre: White Noise, The Wolves, The Effect; Round House Theatre: Book of Will, Miss Bennet; Guthrie Theatre: Juno & The Paycock, Blue Stockings. [AWARDS]: St. Louis Theater Circle Award for Best Actress in a Comedy (Elizabeth Bennet in Pride & Prejudice), Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Ensemble (The Wolves). [TRAINING]: University of Minnesota/Guthrie BFA Actor Training Program. She is also a singer/songwriter, and her music can be found on Spotify, Apple Music, and all other streaming platforms. www.katiekleiger.com

Resident Company Member Since
APRIL 23, 2019

Pronouns: She/Her
Stream Katie’s music on Spotify here.

Get to Know Me

What does being part of Everyman’s Resident Company mean to you?

Being a part of this company means that I have an artistic home – something that is exceedingly rare in this industry. For so many professionals, the idea of a home base is taken for granted. For actors, it is coveted. We are, more often than not, essentially artistic nomads – roaming from place to place for two months at a time, creating special, intimate bonds with strangers, then never seeing them again. It can be an exciting life, but is also an incredibly unsteady and lonely one. Everyman provides the antidote to this – a place we can return, again and again, to create with folks who inevitably become family. The feeling of stability, of consistency, of safety, and (often most importantly in this industry) of respect – these are the gifts that Everyman gives to its artists.

How has your time as a Resident Company Member influenced your artistic journey or career?

My time at Everyman has widened my lens of what I thought was possible as an actor – both with regards to the parameters of type, as well as the agency given to artists. There have been a handful of roles I’ve gotten the chance to play at Everyman that I wouldn’t have even gotten the chance to *audition* for outside of those four walls (Shelby in Steel Magnolias, Dusty in POTUS). I had to get past my own mental roadblocks put in place by years of the industry sorting us into boxes, and although these roles were both challenges, they are the kind of challenges actors live for. On top of this, I feel as though Everyman has helped me find my voice as a professional in the room, allowed me to have agency in the creative process, and helped me understand how an artist should be treated – all extremely valuable lessons as I move through my career.

What connections do you have with Baltimore?

I grew up in the DC/MD area, and although I essentially came out of the womb singing show tunes, my real passion for theatre was born from seeing shows in the DMV as a kid. There are a few formative memories I have going to theatres around the DC/MD area as an 11 or 12 year old that locked in this career path for me. To be able to return to this community as an adult is so full circle for me, and something I dreamed of as a kid. I currently live in NYC, but returning to Baltimore year after year is always like coming home.

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