Biography

Katie Rose Summerfield is an actor, musician, writer living in New York and Los Angeles.

Originally from Chicago, she was singing and dancing as soon as she could talk. She spent her early years backstage at her mother's shows, falling asleep to her crooning with her swing band, The Velvetones.

An alum of Pomona College (English literature and philosophy) , she is also is a graduate of NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study with a BA in The Psychology of Narrative (or, simply: why and how we tell stories). She also studied Vocal Jazz Performance and Music Theatre at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

During her 11 years in New York, she was a company member with Axis Theatre Company, where she starred in an original stage adaptation of the 1952 western, High Noon, and a original folk musical, "Evening - 1910". Her favorite NYC credits include: Dead End (Axis), The Hot Universe (New York Theatre Workshop), Anthropology of a Book Club (MRT); TV: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon), VINYL (HBO).

She performs regularly as a singer-songwriter and has written a TV show about sisterhood, fatherlessness, the mob, and a 200-year-old tortoise named Larry.
- IMDb mini biography by: Katie Rose Summerfield