E. Katherine Kerr

E. Katherine Kerr was an actor, teacher, author, and director. She appeared in many screen roles, and her Broadway credits included Charles Gordone's Pulitzer Prize-winning No Place to Be Somebody, which he wrote and directed, as well as Night Watch (1973), written by Lucille Fletcher and directed by Fred Coe, Mert & Phil, directed by Joseph Papp, and Passion by Peter Nichols. Off-Broadway, she performed in Euripides' The Trojan Women (1971), translated by Edith Hamilton and directed by Mihalis Kakogiannis, in Caryl Churchill's Cloud 9 under Tommy Tune, in Christopher Durang's Laughing Wild, written for her and Durang, and in A.R. Gurney's Love Letters (1999). She toured nationally in Neil Simon's The Gingerbread Lady, which starred Maureen Stapleton. Kerr wrote the plays Intelejunt Dezyne (The God Play) and Juno's Swans, and the book The Four Principles: A Guide for Living From Authentic Acting. She also directed and taught privately in New York City and Connecticut. She died in 2019.