Krisy Dennis

Krisy Dennis's singing and acting career in Los Angeles began when she moved from her hometown of Las Vegas to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts after graduating from high school as an award winning drama student. After acting school, she began her career doing lead and supporting roles in Equity Waiver and Equity regional theatre. She created roles in original award winning plays and musicals and won a Drama-logue Award for Best Actress for her performance in the musical "My Lady Vaudeville" at Theatre East, the oldest professional theatrical workshop in the US. She also performed in benefit concerts with Bruno Kirby, Rue MacClanahan, and Theodore Bikel at Theatre East in addition to other lead roles in several plays. Also at Theatre East, she won the Indus Arthur Memorial Award for outstanding apprenticeship and wrote and performed her own one-woman show entitled 'Higher Selves". She spent years singing cabaret through out Los Angeles and was lead vocalist with Tracy Wells Big Band performing at Avalon and with the late Steve Allen. In addition, she toured Japan performing jazz standards with her own lounge act. Early film and television credits include "Designing Women", "Sisters" "Dying Young" "Barton Fink" and lead actress in USC Grad Film "Ballad of the Melting Land". She had been featured modeling for Laura San Giacomo as her body double for the film "Under Suspicion" starring she and Liam Neeson. More recently, she acted in independent films "Distrust All", (featured at the Playhouse West Film Festival with James Franco), "Pest","Morning Breakfast", and was a guest star on web series "Wicked Enigma". Her one-woman musical "Ladies First" which she co-wrote with Broadway veteran Bob Garrett ran at Whitefire Theatre Solo Festival in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 and then at Zephyr Theatre at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in 2024. She continues to perform stand up comedy in Hollywood and improv at Groundlings. In addition to training at AMDA, she has studied Sandford Meisner Technique at Dvorak & Company and Playhouse West. She is a proud member of sister unions SAG/AFTRA, and AEA.