Kathryn RossetterDepartment Head, Acting; Faculty
Profile:Kathryn Rossetter is an actress/ writer/ teacher. She appeared on Broadway opposite Dustin Hoffman in Death Of a Salesman and then repeated her role in the filmed version. Also on Broadway, Time Of The Cuckoo, at Lincoln Center. Off Broadway she has appeared in numerous productions at The Working Theatre, The WPA Theatre, Public Theatre, Vineyard Theatre, Hudson Guild Theatre, UBU Rep, Playwrights Horizons, New Dramatists, Village Gate, Workhouse Theatre and The Ensemble Studio Theatre where she is a member. Besides Death Of A Salesman she has appeared in the films, Speed II, Fearless, Shakedown, The Night We Never Met, the Independent Sundance hit, Whatever, Pose Down, The Unidentified and Ten Stories Tall among others. She’s done many guest appearances on television, including, Law & Order SVU, Touched by an Angel, Full House, LA Law, Kate and Allie, Spencer For Hire, The Deidre Hall Story, The Bill Cosby Show, The Richard Belzer Show and several television pilots. A veteran of many commercials and voice overs, she can even be heard on some of your favorite video games including Grand Theft Auto and Bully.
She’s written and performed three sketch comedy shows in NY and LA, three One-person shows, several one-act plays and her film scripts, Fine and Virgin Territory, were finalists for a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting.
In Spring 2005 she was a recipient of a Tennessee Williams Theatre Fellowship for developing the one-person show. Her show, Starving, Hysterical Naked, the result of that fellowship, has been performed around NYC.