Kate is best known to television audiences as the beloved drama teacher “Miss Jenn” in Disney+’s hit series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series and can now be seen as Oxana Hauntley on Disney’s Vampirina: Teenage Vampire.

On Broadway, she was most recently in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical as Cynthia Weil, was the standby for Amy Schumer in Steve Martin’s Meteor Shower,and originated the role of Portia in Something Rotten! (Original Cast Recording). Her other Broadway credits include Glinda in Wicked (Broadway and Original Chicago company; Jefferson Award nomination), June in Sam Mendes’ revival of Gypsy starring Bernadette Peters, Caroline in Good Vibrations, the 2002 revival of Into the Woods, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Her theatre work also includes A Year With Frog and Toad (New Victory Theater; Original Cast Recording), Nerds (New York Stage and Film), and Party Come Here (Williamstown Theatre Festival).

On screen, in addition to HSM:TM:TS and VAMPIRINA: Teenage Vampire, Kate was a series regular on ABC’s Work It and Lifetime’s Sherri, with guest-starring roles on Instinct, Anger Management, Modern Family, and Ugly Betty. Her film credits include Russell Madness, Grudge Match, Such Good People, Certainty, Kinsey, and While You Were Sleeping.

As half of the musical comedy duo Tastiskank, she has performed at New York’s 54 Below, the TBS Comedy Festival in Las Vegas, and the HBO Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, where they won the 2007 Breakout Award.