Kate Thompson

Kate Thompson is an Iowa City actor who moved to the area in 1999. A few days later, while looking throught the want ads for a job, she spotted the audition notice for City Circle's production of Pippin and has been active in music and theatre in Iowa City ever since.

Iowa City Area Theatre Credits
City Circle Acting Company of Coralville

Pippin 

Quilt

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1776

The Fantasticks

Shadowlands

Avow

Metamorphoses

A Year with Frog and Toad

Sweet Charity

Bat Boy (back-up vocals)

The Music Man

The Full Monty

3rd Annual New Play Festival (later City Circle Shorts)

Schoolhouse Rock, LIVE!

Hello, Dolly

Riverside Theatre

Equus

Walking the Wire - Blue Yonder

Riverside Cabaret

Iowa City Community Theatre

Fiddler on the Roof

Camelot

South Pacific (concert version) Carousel (concert version)

Dreamwell Theatre

Down with Love: An Anti-Valentine's Cabaret

Rage Theatrics

Love and Rage

Your Swash is Unbuckled 

Tobacco Bowl

Bunny-Fuckin' Story (actor/co-author)

Public Space One

The Moon Stays With Us (director)

University of Iowa New Play Festival

The Secret of Blue

Other Performance Credits
Theatre:

Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts (Fairfield, IA)

Celebrate Sondheim

Opening Gala

Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, IL)

Colors

Perhaps Merely Quiet

Sparks in the Park

Clit Notes

Parallel Lives (director)

The Merchant of Venice

Fly-by-Night Theatre (Dubuque, IA)

Into the Woods

Iowa Humanities Board (tour)

Wish Me Pretty, Wish Me Strong

Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra

Follies, 2008: Tony, Oscar and Emmy

Film:

Resist Evil Pt. One: Dropping Evil      Nancy’s Mom Roklaf Studios, Austin, TX'' Haunted ''                                            Diane               Progressive/Indirect Productions, Iowa City (in production)

Through the Night                              Psycho             Prescribed Films, Ottumwa, IA

Advice from the Grave                       art model         University of Iowa Intermedia

Commercial:

HR Training Films                              various roles    BVS Performance Systems, Cedar Rapids'' ''

Managing Conflict (DVD)                         voice talent      University of Iowa Press, Iowa City

Small Business Conflict (DVD)           various roles    University of Iowa Press, Iowa City

Palliative Care Case Studies             Dr. Freeman   University of Iowa College of Medicine

Appearances as Vocalist:

Calvary (concert version), Des Moines

Saddle Your Own Horse: Englert Theatre Community Spotlight

Festival of Carols, Englert Theatre

New London Holiday Stroll

Beaverdale Fall Festival, Des Moines

First Fridays Art Walk, Fairfield

Raising the Roof for Shelter House

Music in the Park, Coralville

Iowa Park and Recreation Association

That's My Story, That's My Music, Dubuque

Iowa City Pride

Bands:

Spontaneous Combustion (Dixieland)

Guilt Trip (Prog Rock)

Blue Cat Alley (Classic rock, blues and country)

Jason Danielson Quartet (jazz/standards)

Whyspersmyth (hard rock)