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ABOUT KATHY HALENDA  

A professional actor and singer for over thirty years, Ms. Halenda has performed in over 200  productions, including twenty national tours, where her roles included Mama Rose in Gypsy, Mae West in  Ziegfeld, Rafaela in Grand Hotel, Golde in Fiddler on the Roof, Nancy in Oliver and Maggie Jones in 42nd  St. She has played New York City, Washington D.C., Boston, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Atlanta, Charleston, Montreal, Atlantic City, Los Angeles, and a lot of towns in between. Her extensive regional credits include the title roles in  Mame (twice), Hello Dolly (twice), Evita and Annie Get Your Gun, as well as Mae West/Jo in Dirty Blonde,  Mama Rose in Gypsy (three times), Miss Mona in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (five times!), Nancy in Oliver, Miss Hannigan in Annie, and The Plant in Little Shop of Horrors. During Covid, she toured for two years as Rita Marshall on the First National tour of Tootsie, and she has done numerous productions since  then at the Riverside Center in Fredericksburg, VA. 

Kathy is a huge fan of the ART Station, and has performed here several times. She performed in  Bingo awhile back and has also done all three of her one woman shows here at ART Station. Her one-woman tour de force, The Brassy Broads of Broadway, premiered in New York City  thirty years ago at the famous Danny’s Skylight Room in Manhattan and has been presented nationwide,  including at the Philharmonic Center in Naples, FL, the ART Station in Stone Mountain, GA and the Mac-Haydn Theatre in upstate New York. Sophie Tucker: Last of the Red-Hot Mamas (co-written by her) was critically  acclaimed in Florida, Atlanta, the Walnut St. Theatre in Philadelphia, upstate New York and in 2009 was  chosen and presented by ART Station at the world-famous Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC and at the Arts  Festival in Charleston, WV. She was the first female Ringmaster of the Big Apple Circus, touring the United States east coast,  including Atlanta, Washington D.C., Boston and the Lincoln Center in New York City. While in New York City, she received the honor of singing the National Anthem at Madison Square Garden for the nationally televised New York Knicks, and she was asked to sing at Boston’s Fenway Park for the Boston Red Sox  versus the NY Yankees.

The New York Daily News calls her

"a red-hot mama" and The New York Village Voice calls her "an Ethel Merman style diva". The Los Angeles Times says she has "a magnificent belt voice and earthy charm." L.A. Stage says, "Kathy Halenda is a genuine powerhouse!" The Reno Gazette says she is "a knockout- a singer with a heart of gold." And the Atlantic City Whoot says it all with, "Kathy Halenda is a winner!