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 HPK is a multiple Broadway World Best Actress and Director award recipient. As an ACTOR, she is has played  "Donna" and "Tanya" in Mamma Mia! multiple times throughout the country and around the world. Recently she was seen in the fourth season of the CBS hit BULL and in the premier season of HARLEM on Amazon.  She has played "Dee Dee" in The Prom multiple times, "Velma Von Tussle" in Hairspray, was the "Diana" understudy (to Judy McLane) in Next to Normal at Syracuse Stage, was cast in the Off-Broadway show On the Rails, starred  in the world premier of Hit Her With the Skates , "Nancy" in Oliver at the North Carolina Theatre,  "Violet" in 9 to 5, "Miss Sandra" in All Shook Up, "Paige" in The Outsider,
"Helen" in Murder on the Orient Express, "Fruma Sarah" in Fiddler on the Roof with Paul Sorvino, and "Glinda" in The Wizard of Oz, directed by Casey Hushion,  "Lady Macbeth" in Macbeth, "Eliza" in My Fair Lady, "Maria" in The Sound of Music, "Lady Capulet" in Romeo and Juliet, "Mrs. Banks" in Mary Poppins, "Vi" in Footloose, and understudied "Eva" in Evita to name a few.  She has also participated in readings with Goodspeed Opera House, (Queen Mother), HHWTS Productions, and Purple Mountain/ Walk Run Fly Productions, (Part of the Plan, Dan Fogelberg Musical). She is a repeat Symphony performer with the North Carolina Symphony and performed in operas Tosca, Suzanna, and Don Giovanni with the Indianapolis Opera.

 

 As a DIRECTOR, she most recently directed Beautiful,  Footloose  and The Little Mermaid. In 2026 she will direct Come From Away and Holiday Inn. Her directing credits include Macbeth, The Crucible, Noises Off, You Can't Take It With You, Electra, The School for Husbands, Once Upon a Mattress, and Associate Directing Annie at North Carolina Theatre.

 

H P K is an established acting, voice and public speaking coach with 25 years of performing arts education experience and college placement. She has coached students currently on Broadway, including Broadway and movie star Ariana DeBose, in national tours, at regional theatres, and in numerous college and university theatre programs such as CCM, Elon, Carnegie Mellon, NYU, FSU and Michigan State. She is the former director of the Act Out Ensemble Social Issue Theatre and the founder, creator, and director of the Theatre 4 Change Conflict Resolution Theatre. 

 

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