Kristen Norine

Growing up in Utica, New York as the youngest of four children, Kristen was raised with a love for music and theater. Inspired by her hard working parents and her older siblings, who were both very involved with music, Kristen and her twin brother both started playing the piano before joining the local church choir. Throughout middle school and high school Kristen learned how to play as many instruments as she could, sang in both school and church choirs, and took dance lessons. The choice that sealed her fate was joining the school drama club and then getting involved with a local youth theater where she took acting classes until she graduated from high school. When she was sixteen, Kristen was accepted into The New York State Summer School of the Arts for theater, where she studied acting, voice and speech, and movement.

Kristen worked with a local youth theater, doing plays and musicals, as well as other local community theater groups before heading off to college. She is now a senior Musical Theater major at the University of the Arts. She has worked on several university productions and was nominated for The Laurie Beechman Memorial Scholarship award.

Last summer she appeared as Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest directed by Jenn MacMillan for The Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Theater Festival.