KT Sullivan

KT Sullivan is an American singer and actress known for her performances in cabaret and musical theatre.

Born Kathleen Sullivan in Boggy Depot, Oklahoma to Elizabeth, a poet and composer, and James A. Sullivan, a director of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service in Norman, Oklahoma, she performed with her family as the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers.

After attending the University of Oklahoma, she studied opera in Italy and California, but the Broadway songs sung by Barbara Cook led her in a different musical direction.

Sullivan performs her cabaret act in venues such as the Laurie Beechman Theater and the Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City, the Nikko Hotel and three West Coast Cabaret Conventions in San Francisco, and The Pheasantry and The Crazy Coqs at the Brasserie Zedel in London. In a review of her appearance at the Oak Room in 2007, Rex Reed said, "Larky and luscious as ever, she's also singing better."

All the Things You Are, Sullivan's 2008 cabaret show at the Oak Room, featured the work of Jerome Kern. Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote that "Ms. Sullivan ... has a fluttery, semioperatic soprano that gives Kern's most famous melodies their due. But her primary goal on Thursday was to bring his songs down to earth without damaging them." In October 2008, she and frequent partner Mark Nadler performed their cabaret act Cole Porter & Friends at the South Orange Performing Arts Center in South Orange, New Jersey.

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