About
Kristin KP Sgarro (they/them) is a nonbinary actor, musician, and emcee in New York City.
Having worked in styles ranging from classical to contemporary and devised theater for over a decade, some of their favorite NY credits include: Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne), Romeo & Juliet (Romeo), Twelfth Night (Feste), Circus Trick (Clown), Under Woodside (Skeeter, original cast), Othello (Emilia), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Helena; Hermia), and Storm, Still (Goneril). Also a dabbler in new works and devised theater, their work can be found in various projects with AMiOS, Arachne Theater, Underground Skills Exchange, No Exit Theater Collective, and in new works hosted by The Tank, The Bechdel Group, and SheNYC. Emcee credits range from hosting trivia to cabarets and fundraisers at venues like QED Astoria, Jake's Dillemma, and The Green Room 42, including Cabaret on the Couch's Home For the Holidays! Cabaret, which garnered KP a Broadway World Cabaret nomination for Best Emcee.
As a musician, Kristin works in venues all over the city, and has composed original music and arranged music for many independent NYC theater companies, including Match: Lit (Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Othello), AMiOS' SHOTZ! series ("Shared Communal Space", And SHOTZ! For Something Virtually Different), and Everyday Inferno (Iphigenia Among the Taurians’ a cappella chorus). Independent and academic projects include Luis Roberto Herrera's Blood on These Hands, Victoria Fragnito's Scar Tissue, Lisa LaGrande's Song of Avalon Saga: The Cursed Beast, and Queens College's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Kupferberg Center for the Arts. Select MD credits include The Last Five Years (reorchestrations and new arrangements, conductor/live piano), Assassins, Captain Louie (Conductor/Piano 1 for live remote orchestra), Schoolhouse Rock Live!, A Year With Frog And Toad, and one-woman Fringe favorites Fate, Fury, and Musical Theater and Monica Lewinsky Sings Your Heart Out!.
It's never too late to start. [09.03.2020]
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