Joined 2/17/2022
Performer, Actor, Voice-over, Singer
Mezzo-Soprano Young Adult
Grafton, WI
Mezzo-soprano KATHERINE DOBBS is a native Houstonian and Second-Year Master’s Student in Vocal Performance under Dr. Robin Rice. Last school year she was Ottavia in L’incoronazione di Poppea, Mrs. Jones in Street Scene, and won 2nd place in the Houston Gilbert & Sullivan Society’s Career Grant Competition. She earned a BM from DePauw University with minors in German & Italian, performing as Orfeo in Orfeo ed Euridice, Miss Todd in The Old Maid and the Thief, Die Knusperhexe in Hänsel und Gretel, and Madame de la Haltière in Cendrillon. Past summer engagements include Ježibaba in LAH-SOW’s Rusalka (2023), Studio Artist in the MAW’s Lehrer Institute (2023), and Intermediate Artist in Dolora Zajick’s IYDV (2020-2023). This spring she will be starring as Lucretia in The Rape of Lucretia.
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Mezzo-Soprano
E3 - C6 Soprano C (High C)
Ballroom Cha Cha, Foxtrot, Line Dancing, Tango, Waltz
Rice University; The Shepherd School of Music - MM in Vocal Performance DePauw University; The DePauw School of Music - BM in Vocal Performance, German & Italian minors Dolora Zajick’s Institute for Young Dramatic Voices - Summers ‘20, ‘21, ‘22 Luke Housner’s Summer Workshop 2023 Music Academy of the West Studio Artist 2023
Blackbelt (karate); armed/unarmed stage combat 4 yrs; Ballroom dance 5 yrs; Proficient roller-skating; Acting classes 4 yrs; Irish New York & Cockney accents; Improv troupe 2 yrs, Piano 11 yrs; Italian, French, German studies; English, Italian, French, German, Czech, Russian diction coaching; Conducting, supertitle, spotlight training
