Kate Reinders

Kate Reinders is an American actress and singer. She has worked on Broadway and in television. She is best known for playing Miss Jenn in the Disney+ musical mockumentary High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, a musical mockumentary that ran from 2019 to 2023, and she originated Portia in the Broadway musical Something Rotten!, earning a Grammy nomination for Best Musical Theater Album. Her Broadway debut came in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, where she was a swing and covered Amy Lawrence and Becky Thatcher. She next appeared as an understudy in the 2002 revival of Into the Woods, and in 2003 she took her first starring role, as June in a revival of Gypsy. She portrayed Glinda in the Chicago staging of Wicked in 2005, which brought a Joseph Jefferson Award nomination, and she took over the same part on Broadway. Other credits include the Lifetime series Sherri and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.