Trivia

Her father works in marketing and mother is a professor of journalism. She grew up with her mom in the editing room of PBS.

She is a member of the International Virginia Woolf Society.

She is the founder and artistic director of the Shakespeare's Sister Company, an all-female theater company producing classical and new works by female writers.

Prior to appearing as the French maid Muffy in Not Another Heist Movie (2010), Kris served as Freud and Jung's illustrious maids in the World Premiere of Carey Harrison play "Scenes From a Misunderstanding" at the Mint Theater in New York, later moving to the Byrdcliffe Theater in Woodstock.

Actress Shirley Knight serves on the advisory board of her theater company, the Shakespeare's Sister Company.

She is the niece of composer Doug Katsaros.

Attended undergrad with Ryan-Jasen Henne, and they are still very close friends.

New York City (April 2007)

Woodstock, New York - starring in the World Premiere of "Bad Boy" and "Scenes From a Misunderstanding" at the Byrdcliffe. (July 2009)

Assistant directed Olivia Thirlby at City Lights Youth Theater and Friends Seminary in 2001.

Discovered at a country line dancing bar in New York City by casting director Rita Powers for her feature film debut in Ta Ra Rum Pum (2007).

She is obsessed with Pre-Raphaelite art.

She won a humanitarian award for her puppet show about coping with natural disasters which toured schools and communities along the North Carolina Coast.

She was the 1995 Island Girl of the Emerald Isle in North Carolina.

The three heroines that fostered her development into womanhood are Mary Poppins, Wonder Woman, and Ms. Piggy.

The actresses she most admires and wishes she had an ounce of their talent are Dame Judi Dench, Glenn Close, Kathleen Turner, and Patricia Routledge.

She loves cheese so much, she wrote a play about it.

She has a rabbit for whom she has written a children's book series.

She has an older brother, Jason, who resides in Singapore. He and his wife are writers that run an independent publishing company called Two Cranes Press.