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England

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Southeast London (Redbridge, Greater London, UK)

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First Name

Katharyn R.

Last Name

King

Gender

Female

School

Defense Language Institute

School Status

College Freshman

Degree(s) and Major(s)

Linguistics

Biography

Biography

Katharyn R. King

Born on March 10, 1990 in California, Katharyn R. King is an actress, writer and amateur director. Having spent much of her formative life in the Redbridge borough of southeast London, she considers herself an expatriate of sorts (“To paraphrase the prolific Gertrude Stein, America is my country, but London is my hometown”). From an early age, she enjoyed acting and singing and soon earned such familiar roles as Dolly Levi from Hello, Dolly!, Miss Hannigan from Annie, and Adelaide from Guys and Dolls. Miss King acted in more than seven main stage plays, competed in several theatre competitions, stage-managed six school productions and most recently, one professional ballet with Center Stage Dance Studios based out of Corona. She is most widely recognized for her performances as Miss Meyermyer from Lindsay Price’s Christmas parody, Deck the Stage, Martha Dobie from the controversial Hellman tragedy The Children’s Hour, Hecuba from Euripides’ The Trojan Women, Ruth from Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit, and Lettice Douffet from Peter Shaffer’s Lettice and Lovage.
Preferring character roles to straight ones, high comedy to low, it is no wonder that she has a flair for both classical and contemporary English plays.
The summer before her terminating year in secondary school, she enlisted in the United States Army Reserve for personal reasons. Unable to depart for Basic Combat Training until she graduated from school, King continued her studies in Advanced Theatre Arts under the auspicious of Theatre Director Meridith Stempinski.
A graduate of Centennial High School in Corona, California, King left her alma mater sporting High Honours for Academic Excellence as well as Honours from the International Thespian Society for Outstanding Excellence in Theatre Arts, and has accrued over 2400 hours of acting and technical experience and training in this field within the span of three years. Katharyn also served as Secretary/Treasurer of ITS Troupe #5004 her senior year. She received the 2007 and 2008 Most Promising (Junior and Senior years respectively) Award from the Centennial High School Theatre Department, the Presidential Education Award for Outstanding Academic Excellence in Theatre of 2008, and the 2008 Bank of America Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Drama. She has also penned a play of her own, which is entitled The Broken Spirit, Blind.
An avid writer, she is also known for her prolific authorship of over thirty short stories to date and her collection continues to grow. Some of her more famous stories are “Elise,” “Lessons Learned While Falling Off the Earth,” “Painted Blind,” “Erasure Complex,” and “Apart.” Along with short fiction, King’s poetry has attracted much acclaim as well, earning her the 2008 New Jersey Live Poets Society Topical Award for her poem “Vitals” and the International Society of Poets Editor’s Choice Award several times over.
Although accepted to Richmond University in London out of high school, financial hardship compelled King to enroll at the California State University in San Bernardino, California where she spent her first college term majoring in Theatre Arts with an Emphasis in Theatre Education and a minor in French. She became an active member of Players of the Pear Garden, CSUSB’s Theatre Club, and was most recently cast in Dr. Terry Donovan Smith’s production of Moliere’s The Miser in November 2008.
Again, a longing to return to a life of civil service incited King to return to her duties in the military, this time on Active Duty. She is currently serving in the Army’s Military Intelligence Corps as a Cryptologic Linguist and will be returning home to pursue a teaching credential to teach English and Theatre at the secondary level upon expiration of her contract with the military.

“No matter what may come, I will change neither my heart nor the commitment I have made to stand firmly by it.”

--K. R. King

Birth Date: March 10th
Issues: Civil Liberties; Civil Rights; Economic Growth; Education; Election Reform; Energy Policy; Environment; Good Government; Healthcare; Military Issues; National Security; Retirement Security
Registered to Vote: Yes
Party Affiliation: Democrat
Political Identification: Progressive

Famous Quotes:

"If something's important, you make the time."
"No matter what may come, I will not change my heart nor the commitment I have made to stand firmly by it."
"Dream implies fantasy, goal implies victory."
"Every dream is born into darkness; all it takes is a little courage to light the way."

Favorite music

[modest mouse], [newsboys], [casting crowns], [chevelle], [system of a down], [london after midnight], [snow patrol], [aerosmith], [queen], [the raconteurs], [scorpions], [led zeppelin], [boston], [foreigner], [lynyrd skynyrd], [cream], [creedence clearwater revival], [creed], [the birthday massacre], [pink floyd], [train], [ozone], [hall & oates], [kidney thieves], [tsol], [the darkness], [black sabbath], [van halen], [she wants revenge], [guns n roses], [ac/dc], [journey], [styx], [the doors], [the beatles], [white stripes], [billy joel], [steven curtis chapman], [mercyme], [kyo], [anggun], [david hallyday], [grateful dead], [chris tomlin], [seal], [metallica], [steppenwolf], [the guess who], [motown], [elo], [billy idol], [afi], [30 seconds to mars], [avenged sevenfold], [david bowie], [pat benatar], [the go-gos], [yeah yeah yeahs], [panic ! at the disco], [the new york dolls], [jeff beck], [the black crowes], [cherry poppin' daddies], [big bad voodoo daddy], [muse], [velvet revolver], [ilona mitrecey], [peggy lee], [ella fitzgerald], [judy garland], [rosemary clooney], [benny goodman], [brian setzer], [glenn miller], [tommy dorsey], [count basie], [duke ellington], [paul mccartney], [lara fabian], [the killers], [in grid], [the andrews sisters], ["kiss" by tom jones ft art-of-noise], [the donnas], [nightwish], [reamonn], [dirty pretty things], [death cab for cutie], [showtunes, in general], [vangelis], [bix beiderbecke], [techno, trance music]

Favorite books

[american psycho (bret easton ellis)], [the awakening (kate chopin)], [nightfall (isaac asimov)], [i, robot (isaac asimov)], [foundation series (isaac asimov)], [to kill a mockingbird (harper lee)], [sabriel (garth nix)], [the great gatsby] (f. scott fitzgerald)], [interview with the vampire (anne rice)], [obsidian butterfly (laurell k. hamilton)], [less than zero (bret easton ellis)], [star trek voyager: homecoming (christie golden)], [silence of the lambs (thomas harris)], [the tommyknockers (stephen king)], [dreamcatcher (stephen king)], [jewn river (w. l. king - hehhe, my daddy)], [a people's history of the united states (howard zinn)], [the da vinci code (dan brown)], [angels and demons (dan brown)], [mosaic (jeri taylor)], [brave new world (aldous huxley)], [utopia (sir thomas moore)], [the adventures of huckleberry finn] (mark twain)], [divine comedy (dante alighieri)], [stories of flannery o'connor], [l'étranger (albert camus)], [collected works of kate chopin]

Favorite news sources

BBC World News

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