Katie Cunningham Headshot

Katie Cunningham

Birth Place: Gainesville, GA

Get Katie Cunningham Email Alerts

Be the first to get news, photos, videos & more.

Katie Cunningham BIO

Katie Cunningham is a Knoxville, TN-based actor, educator, and theatre-maker. Katie appears regularly in the acting company at Clarence Brown Theatre (CBT), the professional regional theatre affiliated with the University of Tennessee (UT). Also for CBT/UT: Voice and Text Coach; undergraduate acting teacher. Recent acting work includes: Lashes (SAG Short Film); Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley at American Stage (Theatre Tampa Bay Award, Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play); and the 2018 and 2019 seasons at Utah Shakespeare Festival, where Katie played Lady Macbeth in Macbeth; Rebecca Heminges/Anne Hathaway Shakespeare in The Book of Will; Maria in Twelfth Night; Emilia in Othello and Isabelle/Sabine in The Liar. Other theatre: Asolo Rep (multiple seasons) and a host of regional stages across the country. In NYC: TACT/The Actors’ Company Theatre; NY Fringe; and more. Teaching: McCarter Theatre Center; University of Tennessee; FSU/Manatee School for the Arts. Training: B.A., UNC Chapel Hill; M.F.A. Acting, FSU/Asolo Conservatory. Proud union member (AEA & SAG-AFTRA).

Katie Cunningham News


Photos: First Look at PlayMakers' MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS


PlayMakers Repertory Company opened its production of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig this weekend. Check out photos here!

First Look at PlayMakers Repertory Company's MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS


The train is pulling into the station as PlayMakers Repertory Company opens its production of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig. Check out a photo from the production here!

MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS Comes to PlayMakers Repertory Company in March


PlayMakers Repertory Company is preparing for its production of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig. Performances run March 9-24.

Clarence Brown Theatre Opens New Season With The Return Of MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS


The show that played to rave reviews until Covid stopped it in its tracks last season.  Back by popular demand, Agatha Christie's masterpiece, “Murder on the Orient Express,” will open the Clarence Brown Theatre's 2023/2024 Season September 6 – 24, 2023.

Ken Martin Named New Clarence Brown Theatre Artistic Director And Head Of The UT Department Of Theatre


Ken Martin will join the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, August 1, 2022, as the new Clarence Brown Theatre artistic director and head of the Department of Theatre in the College of Arts and Sciences. Calvin MacLean, former artistic director and head, retired in August 2021.

BWW Review: Forget Scrooge and George Bailey; MISS BENNET: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY at American Stage is the Holiday Play We Need


This fun holiday sequel to 'Pride and Prejudice' is escapist fare, mere fluff, but that's what's so right about it.

BIGSOUND Festival Announces Program and Timetable


In case you weren't excited enough for your yearly live music pilgrimage to Brisbane's Fortitude Valley Live Music Precinct for a sensory overload of music, BIGSOUND Festival has shown all its cards, dropping all the tools you need today to choose your own sonic adventure. 

Dog Days Theatre Continues with DOUBLE INDEMNITY on 8/8


FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training's inaugural season of Dog Days Theatre continues with DOUBLE INDEMNITY, David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright's stage adaptation of James M. Cain's titillating crime novel that inspired the groundbreaking Academy Award-nominated film noir of the same name. Dog Days Theatre is a new theater project offering smart, contemporary works just light enough for the dog days of summer, featuring two plays mounted in the Cook Theatre, located in the FSU Center for the Performing Arts, using professional actors, directors and designers from the community and around the country along with the talents of the Conservatory's graduate students. Directed by FSU/Asolo Conservatory Director Greg Leaming and Jesse Jou,  DOUBLE INDEMNITY previews August 8 and 9, opens August 10 and runs through August 27. 

Casting Announced for Inaugural Season of FSU/Asolo Conservatory's Dog Days Theatre


 FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training proudly announces casting for the inaugural season of Dog Days Theatre, a new theater project offering smart, contemporary works just light enough for the dog days of summer. Each summer, Dog Days Theatre will feature two plays mounted in the Cook Theatre, located in the FSU Center for the Performing Arts, using professional actors, directors and designers from the community and around the country along with the talents of the Conservatory's graduate students.

BWW Review: THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA At Palm Beach Dramaworks


Luckily, I can always count on Palm Beach Dramaworks to finely tune the most delicate of pieces. The creative team of The Night of the Iguana, led by director William Hayes, along with a Tim Altmeyer-led cast, gave a sudden and much needed voice to a play many put on the back burner.

Palm Beach Dramaworks Launches Seventeenth Season with Tennessee Williams' THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA


The Night of the Iguana, Tennessee Williams' soul-searching, compassionate, surprisingly funny, and achingly poetic 1961 play about a defrocked minister and his one chance for salvation, opens Palm Beach Dramaworks' 2016-2017 season today, October 14 (8pm) at the Don & Ann Brown Theatre. Performances continue through November 13, with specially priced previews on October 12 and 13.

Palm Beach Dramaworks Launches Seventeenth Season with Tennessee Williams' THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA


The Night of the Iguana, Tennessee Williams' soul-searching, compassionate, surprisingly funny, and achingly poetic 1961 play about a defrocked minister and his one chance for salvation, opens Palm Beach Dramaworks' 2016-2017 season on Friday, October 14 (8pm) at the Don & Ann Brown Theatre. Performances continue through November 13, with specially priced previews on October 12 and 13.

Asolo Repertory Theatre's OUR BETTERS Begins Tonight


Before there was Downton Abbey, there was Our Betters, W. Somerset Maugham's fiery romantic dramedy about the invasion of sly social-climbing American heiresses into British society. The fifth play in the third season of Asolo Rep's five-year American Character Project illuminates a sect of wealthy, early 20th-century American women who yearned for the pomp and circumstance - and parties - of the British nobility. Directed by Asolo Rep's producing artistic director Michael Donald Edwards, Our Betters opens Friday, March 13, 2015 at 8pm and runs through Sunday, April 19 at Asolo Rep, with previews tonight, March 11 and Thursday, March 12 at 8pm.

Asolo Repertory Theatre to Present OUR BETTERS, Begin. 3/11


Before there was Downton Abbey, there was Our Betters, W. Somerset Maugham's fiery romantic dramedy about the invasion of sly social-climbing American heiresses into British society. The fifth play in the third season of Asolo Rep's five-year American Character Project illuminates a sect of wealthy, early 20th-century American women who yearned for the pomp and circumstance - and parties - of the British nobility. Directed by Asolo Rep's producing artistic director Michael Donald Edwards, Our Betters opens Friday, March 13, 2015 at 8pm and runs through Sunday, April 19 at Asolo Rep, with previews Wednesday, March 11 and Thursday, March 12 at 8pm.

ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS Begins Tonight at TheatreSquared


TheatreSquared (T2) will launch its ninth season with the acclaimed comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, a new adaptation by Richard Bean of the classic farce The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni.

ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS Begins 8/28 at TheatreSquared


TheatreSquared (T2) will launch its ninth season with the acclaimed comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, a new adaptation by Richard Bean of the classic farce The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni.

Clarence Brown Theatre Presents SPAMALOT, Now thru 5/11


Rude Frenchmen, cancan dancers, the Lady of the Lake and her Laker Girls, killer rabbits, and catapulting cows, are just some of the adventures and dangers awaiting King Arthur and his knights of the very, very, very round table in their quest for the holy grail playing on the Clarence Brown Theatre Stage today, April 24 - May 11, 2014!

Clarence Brown Theatre Adds 4/29 Performance of SPAMALOT


Due to popular demand, the Clarence Brown Theatre has added a Tuesday, April 29 at 7:30 pm performance to the run of "Monty Python's Spamalot". Several of the shows in the April 24-May 11, 2014 production run have limited availability. The production is sponsored by Schaad Companies, Pilot Flying J, the Mildred Haines and William Elijah Morris Lecture Endowment Fund and the Arts & Heritage Fund. Media sponsors are Comcast, WBIR, WUOT, WUTK, B97.5 and East Tennessee PBS.

Clarence Brown Theatre to Present SPAMALOT, 4/24-5/11


Rude Frenchmen, cancan dancers, the Lady of the Lake and her Laker Girls, killer rabbits, and catapulting cows, are just some of the adventures and dangers awaiting King Arthur and his knights of the very, very, very round table in their quest for the holy grail playing on the Clarence Brown Theatre Stage April 24 - May 11, 2014! The production is sponsored by Schaad Companies, Pilot Flying J, the Mildred Haines and William Elijah Morris Lecture Endowment Fund and the Arts & Heritage Fund. Media sponsors are Comcast, WBIR, WUOT, WUTK, B97.5 and East Tennessee PBS.

BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards LAST CHANCE TO VOTE - Manus, Hancock Tied!


Voting is now underway for Nashville! We have a record number of votes in already, but if you haven't voted yet, click here to vote! If you have voted already, tell your friends.

Get Katie Cunningham Email Alerts

Be the first to get news, photos, videos & more.

Videos