Pacific Conservatory Theatre (PCPA) Resident Artist Kitty Balay is one of the 10 performers selected by Ten Chimneys Foundation to participate in the Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program, an annual week of master classes headed by a renowned professional each year. Actors and acting teachers are chosen from an exclusive list of nominees from only 10 national theaters.
Balay has been a resident artist with PCPA since 1989, appearing in more than 85 productions, including Shakespeare in Love, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Hamlet, and Hello Dolly. Among the productions Balay has directed are Trying, A Little Night Music, and most recently, Million Dollar Quartet, which is currently showing at the Solvang Festival Theater through Sunday, July 28.
“From those early stages of her professional career until today, Kitty has refined her terrific gifts into powerful skills,” PCPA Artistic Director Mark Booher, who nominated Balay for the fellowship, said in a press release. “Her vibrant artistic career has been built in a context that makes a constant, direct connection between excellent professional practice and learning.”
This year’s program, led by stage and television actress Tyne Daly, began Sunday, July 14, and runs through Saturday, July 20, in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin. Daly has been nominated for 17 Emmy Awards over the years, winning a total of six for roles in Cagney and Lacey, Christy, and Judging Amy. Her Broadway credits include It Shoulda Been You, Mothers and Sons, Rabbit Hole, and Gypsy, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Actress.
This article appears in Jul 18-25, 2019.
