APHRODITE (ACOUSTIC VERSION) - OUT NOW
Out now! ‘aphrodite (acoustic version)’ on all platforms <3
SONGWRITER SHOWCASE IN NASHVILLE
Kate shared her live music at the Commodore Grille in Nashville, TN. This was her first live performance of original music since pre-2020 and is excited to get back in the studio this year to record!
VOICEOVER ARTIST IN SKYWIND
Kate is lending her voice to the video game mod Skywind and is thrilled to be playing an elf in the game. She joined fellow voiceover artists involved in the Skyrim/Morrowind worlds in a fundraiser to help End Alzheimer’s with Wes Johnson (Kate’s voiceover teacher, and voiceover actor in Skyrim) and other wonderful actors. You can check out the charity livestream by Fallout for Hope here.
LAUNCH OF INSPIRATIONAL CROW
Kate’s writing and creating under the alias inspirationalcrow, a passion project that has reached millions on social media. She hopes to use this platform to keep spreading joy, and to encourage everyone to get in touch with nature and wildlife in their neighborhood, including your local neighborhood crows.
‘ITS A Wonderful Life: A LIVE RADIO PLAY’ AT BRECKENRIDGE BACKSTAGE THEATRE - BRECKENRIDGE, COLORADO
Kate is playing Mary in the holiday classic ‘It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play’ this season in Breckenridge, Colorado. Directed by Mark Ragan with Jacob Dresch, Chip Smith, Lauren Dennis, and Seth Harris. Tickets are available for purchase here.
‘Bloomsday’ at The Dairy ARTS Center in boulder, COLORADO
Kate is playing the young Irish lass Caithleen in ‘Bloomsday’ by Steven Dietz, an Irish romance in the 2020 season at The Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, Colorado. Tickets available here.
“Kate Parkin is a very appealing Caithleen, her vulnerability pierced by occasional sparks of fierce defiance.” - Denver Westword, Juliet Wittman
Check out photos of the production here.
Best Performance by an actress in a comedy finalist (Denver Westword)
Kate is honored to be nominated for Best Performance by an Actress for her portrayal of Pony Jones in The Realistic Joneses by Will Eno, directed by Stephen Weitz.
“Kate Parkin fascinated as the skitzy, sweet-sour Pony in The Realistic Joneses, adding a vibrating high note of charming eccentricity to an altogether very strong cast.” - Denver Westword, Juliet Wittman
Emily Paton Davies, Casey Andree, Kate Parkin, Michael Morgan - Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company, Dairy Arts Center
announced: KATE parkin as CAiTHLEEN in “bloomsday” with boulder ensemble theatre company (BETC) @ DAIRY ARTS CENTER
An old-fashioned, new-fangled Irish romance from one of America’s most prolific playwrights.
“Robert returns to Dublin to reunite with Cait, the woman who captured his heart during a James Joyce literary tour thirty-five years ago. Dancing backwards through time, the older couple retraces their steps to discover their younger selves. Through youthful Robbie and Caithleen, they relive the unlikely, inevitable events that brought them – only briefly – together. This time-traveling love story blends wit, humor, and heartache into a buoyant, moving appeal for making the most of the present before it becomes the past.”
Tickets available here.
“THE REALISTIC JONESES” - RUNNING OCT. 24 - NOV. 17 @ Dairy aRTS CENTER
Playing Pony Jones in The Realistic Joneses by Will Eno, directed by Stephen Weitz with Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Tickets onsale here.
Kate Parkin as Pony Jones + Casey Andree as John Jones + Michael Morgan as Bob Jones + Emily Paton Davies as Jennifer Jones
“In Michael Morgan (Bob), Emily Paton Davies (Jennifer), Casey Andree (John) and Kate Parkin (Pony), director Stephen Weitz has hit the casting jackpot. I’d love to have been in on their conversations, hear their interpretations of the words they were required to say, listen to their feelings about motivation and meaning, because the resulting performances are vivid, and these actors work in beautiful synchronicity. Parkin plays flittering-fluttery Pony with beautiful, almost translucent style.” -Juliet Wittman, Denver Westword
“Parkin performs wonders in finding the arc from Pony's flitting, surface consciousness to a deep connection that ushers the dark comedy to a sweet close.” -Bob Bows, Colorado Drama
“Parkin juggles Pony’s hippie-chick persona with the deep anxiety of a suburban belle, and her frailty appeals to the equally fragile Bob. While their eventual liaison seems improbable, it sets up the friction necessary to move things along.” -Alex Miller, Onstage Colorado
“Kate Parkin is a delight in the difficult role of Pony – young, scatterbrained, talkative, and with an underlying sense of insecurity. We don’t learn much about the backgrounds of any of the characters, except for Pony.” -Barbara Peterson, Wyoming in Motion
KATE FEATURED on WHOHAHA - “FUNNY FRIDAY”
Kate’s tiktok videos, ranging from Harry Potter parodies to musical covers, have been featured on WhoHaha, a comedy platform created by Elizabeth Banks.
OUT ON YOUTUBE
musical performance at mar vista art walk + geek & sundry
Performed at the Mar Vista Art Walk as the musical guest for the Philosopher’s Stone Poets outside of Vintage on Venice, and as a musical artist for the Art Walk afterparty. Appeared on an episode of f ‘Gather Your Party’ with the improv group Robot Teammate on the twitch channel of Geek & Sundry.
"THE GET" pilot ON CBS
Kate shot a co-star role on the pilot "The Get" by writer Bridget Carpenter (Friday Night Lights, 11.22.63), with Amy Brenneman and Brad Garrett.
RESIDENCY AT MOLLY MALONE’s IN LOS ANGELES
One of Kate’s favorite venues in LA became home for a while to try out new songs. With the Philosopher’s Stone Poets, a non-profit poetry group, Kate performed her original songs and covers. Some favorites included ‘tearin up my heart’ by NSYNC and her original, ‘kingdom come.’
[originals: ‘the way’ + ‘aphrodite’ + ‘california wildfire’ + ‘big love’]
In the news
“In Michael Morgan (Bob), Emily Paton Davies (Jennifer), Casey Andree (John) and Kate Parkin (Pony), director Stephen Weitz has hit the casting jackpot. I’d love to have been in on their conversations, hear their interpretations of the words they were required to say, listen to their feelings about motivation and meaning, because the resulting performances are vivid, and these actors work in beautiful synchronicity…Parkin plays flittering-fluttery Pony with beautiful, almost translucent style.” - Juliet Wittman, Denver Westword - The Realistic Joneses with Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company (BETC) at The Dairy Arts Center
“Parkin performs wonders in finding the arc from Pony's flitting, surface consciousness to a deep connection that ushers the dark comedy to a sweet close.” -Bob Bows, Colorado Drama
If there was ever a video designed to make the Internet explode from joy, this is it. Los Angeles actress and self-described "Harry Potter superfan" Kate Parkin posted a video on YouTube featuring a medley of Taylor Swift songs reworked with Hogwarts-related lyrics and sung from the point of view of J.K. Rowling characters Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Draco Malfoy, Luna Lovegood and, of course, the boy wizard himself. - The Los Angeles Times
YouTube genius Kate Parkin combined two great tastes that taste more than great together — Taylor Swift and Harry Potter, to be exact — to brew the perfect parody potion. -MTV
“Bad Blood,” meet Mudblood. That's thanks to enterprising YouTuber Kate Parkin, who took several of Taylor Swift's 1989 songs and changed the lyrics into a delightful mash-up touting the values of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. -Billboard
Among the talented cast, the young lovers particularly stand out: Kate Parkin as Helena...Parkin’s body language is wonderfully expressive and her denunciation of Hermia is particularly passionate. -Los Angeles Stage and Cinema, Midsummer Night's Dream at The Odyssey Theatre
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