Nora Kirkpatrick

Nora Kirkpatrick, an American actress, director, writer and musician, grew up in rural Iowa and studied theater at UCLA. She helped found Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and played accordion in the Grammy-winning band, leaving after seven years in 2014 to concentrate on writing and directing. On screen, she is known for playing Katherine, the stern Panhellenic president on ABC Family's Greek, and Esther Bruegger, a neighboring farmer's daughter, in season nine of The Office; she also starred in the mockumentary web series Dorm Life as Courtney Cloverlock. Her directing and writing work includes the interactive series The Coop, the Hulu VR comedy Door No. 1, an episode of The Goldbergs, and projects sold to CBS, Hulu and Comedy Central. Her short films have collected festival awards, among them the San Diego Film Festival's grand jury prize and a best female director honor at the Prague International Film Festival in 2020.