KATE HUFFMAN
SAG-AFTRA
Actor.Writer.Comedian.Human
Kate Huffman is an actor/writer who actively works in film, TV, and theatre (Fresh Off the Boat, Castle, reasons to be pretty - Geffen Playhouse). Her work in theatre has won her an LA Weekly Theatre Award, a Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle Award nom, an Encore Producers' Award, and a Valley Theatre Award nomination.
She is a graduate of the Upright Citizen's Brigade (UCB) and performs sketch comedy at improvOlympic West, UCB, and Second City. She has appeared in San Francisco Sketch Fest, Austin’s Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, Los Angeles’s Funny Women Festival, the Hollywood Fringe Festival, Comedy Central Stages, and countless other venues and festivals.
Her award-winning solo show, I'm Too Fat for This Show, has been seen in cities across the US as well as in Ireland. The sharing of her story through comedy and heart has been an amazing journey, and she's endlessly grateful for the opportunity to be of service through art.
She hails from Indianapolis, earned her BFA in Acting at the University of Miami, and studies at Steppenwolf West. She takes a lot of prescription pills, but her heart's in the right place!
REVIEWS and PRESS:
100 Saints You Should Know: (Winner LA Weekly Theatre Award; nominated Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle Award)
“[Abby is] vividly portrayed by Kate Huffman”
- Backstage
“Huffman is darkly hilarious as Abby, a bundle of unfocused frustration and aggression looking for absolutely any target at all.”
-LAist
“[Huffman], a tornado whose still center belies an empty soul, is captivating and funny as hell.”
- Huffington Post
“[Kate Huffman is] exceptionally stellar. [She] portrayed a modern day teenager so colorfully, at times I wanted to shake her out of her own attitude riddled reality. She reminds the audience just how bewildering the world can be when you are coming of age.”
- ArtsBeatLA
“Kate Huffman is clearly an exciting young actress”
-StageandCinema
Love Sick:
“Kate Huffman stands out.”
-StageMage
Little Flower of East Orange:
“…a mesmerizing Kate Huffman.”
- Stageandcinema
New Jerusalem:
“Lovely Kate Huffman captures Clara’s torment in the stirring, heartbreaking testimony she is forced to give.”
- Santa Monica Mirror
“Kate Huffman was very delicate as Clara van den Enden … Marvelous.”
- Joe Straw
“Kate Huffman brings enormously touching directness to Clara van den Enden, the gentile music teacher with whom Spinoza is platonically involved.”
- Backstage
The Glory of Living:
“[Huffman’s] complete transformation of age, education, accent and personality is the kind of acting students and professionals alike need to see.”
- Acted By Magazine