Biography

K.C. Ligon

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Born into a theatrical family (her mother was actress and dialect coach Nora Dunfee and her father was veteran Broadway and film actor David Clarke), she made her Broadway debut in "Under Milk Wood" at the age of eight, and subsequently appeared with her parents in the National Tour of "The Visit" with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. She attended the Professional Children's School from the first grade through high school, and was a member of the first graduating class of what is now the Graduate Acting Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Her stage credits include "Subject to Fits" at the New York Public Theater; "Hamlet", "The Importance of Being Earnest" and "Travesties" at the Mark Taper Forum; "Merton of the Movies" at the Ahmanson, and "Crowbar" at the Victory Theater in New York. K.C. Ligon is a dialect coach on Broadway and does extensive private coaching of prominent performers for theatre and film.
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Tom Ligon and K.C. Ligon, formerly known as Katharine Dunfee Clarke, were married on New Year's Eve in 1976 by Leigh Taylor-Young in her home in Beverly Hills, California. Among those present were the bride's parents, Nora Dunfee and David Clarke, and one of Mr. Ligon's co-stars in Jump (1971), Sally Kirkland.
In the spring of 1960, when she was eleven years old, as the youngest member of 'The Visit' company, she presented a bouquet of red roses to legendary acting couple Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne on the occasion of the closing performance of the play and the Lunts' farewell to the theatre, on the stage of the City Center Theater in New York, in the midst of a thunderous ovation.
Vocal Consultant for INKY by Rinne Groff, directed by Loretta Greco for The Women's Project at the Julia Miles Theater, New York City.
Dialects for Tad Mosel's "All the Way Home" directed by Jack Cummings III for Transport Group, Connelly Theatre, New York City.
Designing dialects for the Naked Angels production of Emily Mann's play "Meshugah" at the Kirk Theatre, New York City.

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