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Kate Goehring

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Kate Goehring is an American stage, film and television actress.

Early life

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Goehring grew up on Mason's Island.[1] Her father, Edmund Goehring, Sr., was a Commander in the Navy in World War II and a vice president of sales for an electronics company.[2] Her mother, Helen Goehring, is a writer and retired development director.[3]

Goehring graduated from Oberlin College with a degree in American Romantic Fiction.[1]

Career

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Film and television

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Goehring has won Best Performance by An Actor at the 2023 New York Shorts International Film Festival for her work in the short film Bad Mother.[4] She co-starred in the independent feature Swimmers, as well as appearing on Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. She starred opposite David Jason as Detective Grace Wallace in ITV's March in Windy City. Other co-starring roles include Stella, Gossip Girl, One Life to Live, ER, and The Untouchables. Goehring also originated the character of Magenta in the video game Grand Theft Auto V. She has been nominated for a Chicago local Emmy for her performance in John Logan's Moment of Rage,[5] starring Denis O'Hare.

Theater

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Goehring first garnered notice for her Chicago performance in Christopher Durang's Laughing Wild for which she won a Joseph Jefferson Citation.[6] She played Harper Pitt in Tony Kushner's first national tour of Angels in America, which earned her a Miami Carbonell Award.[7] Goehring was most recently in the Broadway production of "The Inheritance",[8] directed by Stephen David Daldry.

Early on in Chicago, Goehring was nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award for Candida at the Court Theatre.[citation needed] She worked with the Court Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Northlight Theatre,[9] and Bailiwick Repertory Theatre.[10] She earned her Equity Card in the process[11] Other more recent credits include playing Vivian Bearing, PhD, in Margaret Edson's Wit, at North Carolina Theatre, for which she won Best Actress in a Play (Broadway World/Raleigh); and Mother Radiunt in the Triad Stage world premiere of Radiunt Abundunt.[12]

Other regional work includes playing Eleanor of Aquitane in the Folger Shakespeare Library production of Shakespeare's "The Life and Death of King John",[13] and Lady Bracknell in "The Importance of Being Earnest" at New York Classical Theatre. Other work in regional theaters includes the Intiman, A Contemporary Theatre, Arena Stage, the McCarter Theatre, the Huntington Theatre Company, the Triad Stage, and Milwaukee Repertory.[14] She played Bella opposite Judy Kaye in Lost in Yonkers at the Arizona Theatre Company.[15]

Awards

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Goehring has received:

  • Best Performance: "Bad Mother" Fire Island Film Festival[16]
  • Best Performance by An Actor: "Bad Mother", New York Shorts International Film Festival (2023)[17]
  • Broadway World/Raleigh Award, Best Actress in a Play: Wit[18]
  • Joseph Jefferson Citation Winner: Laughing Wild[19]
  • After Dark Award: Laughing Wild[19]
  • Joseph Jefferson Award nomination: Candida[citation needed]
  • Joseph Jefferson Award nomination: Angels in America[19]
  • Carbonell Award/Principal Actress: Angels in America, National Tour[20]
  • Leon Rabin Award/Actress in a Leading Role: Experiment with an Airpump[21]
  • Chicago Midwest Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actress: Moment of Rage[22]
  • Seattle Footlights Award/Principal Actress: Collected Stories[23]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Cutting Loose - tribunedigital-chicagotribune". Chicago Tribune. 13 August 1995. Archived from the original on 2016-09-14. Retrieved 2016-09-03.
  2. ^ "Edmund J. Goehring Sr. Obituary (2005) the Day". Legacy.com.
  3. ^ "Helen Goehring, Author at Sheila Bender's Writing It Real". 10 October 2012.
  4. ^ "Bad Mother". IMDb.
  5. ^ "Playwrights Strut Their Stuff for Tv Audience - tribunedigital-chicagotribune". Chicago Tribune. 18 June 1989. Archived from the original on 2016-09-18. Retrieved 2016-09-18.
  6. ^ "'Good Times' Scores as Jeff Committee's Top Non-equity Pick - tribunedigital-chicagotribune". Chicago Tribune. 12 June 1990. Archived from the original on 2016-09-14. Retrieved 2016-09-03.
  7. ^ "Carbonell Award Winners". 2 November 1995.
  8. ^ "Kate Goehring".
  9. ^ "Northlight Theatre Collection".
  10. ^ "Sure the Theater Has Its Moments of Glamour - Right There Amid - tribunedigital-chicagotribune". Chicago Tribune. 11 March 1990. Archived from the original on 2016-03-15. Retrieved 2016-09-03.
  11. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-05-11. Retrieved 2016-10-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. ^ "CVNC - Triad Stage's Radiunt Abundunt: A Picture Perfect Meditation on Art".
  13. ^ "Folger Theatre Breathes Life into 'King John,' One of Shakespeare's Most Rarely-Produced Plays | DCist". Archived from the original on 2018-12-14. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
  14. ^ "Kate Goehring theatre profile".
  15. ^ "Help Center - the Arizona Republic".
  16. ^ "Fire Island Film Festival 2024". fireislandnews.com. 2024-07-21. Retrieved 2024-10-06.
  17. ^ "PAST WINNERS". nyshorts.net. Retrieved 2024-10-07.
  18. ^ "2016 BroadwayWorld Raleigh Awards Winners Announced - Judy McLane, Hunter Foster, Dirk Lumbard and More!".
  19. ^ a b c "Bailiwick Repertory Archive".
  20. ^ "The Palm Beach Post from West Palm Beach, Florida on September 29, 1995 · Page 88". 29 September 1995.
  21. ^ "Dallas Theatre League Rabin Awards". Archived from the original on 2016-10-06. Retrieved 2016-10-06.
  22. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-05-10. Retrieved 2016-10-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  23. ^ "Theater -- from Seattle Times Critics, the Annual Footlight Awards".
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