Actor & Playwright

Kristen
McCullough

Ovation Award‑winning actress and Los Angeles‑based playwright whose work centers on family, identity, and the universal need to belong.

Union
SAG-AFTRA
Based in
Los Angeles
Represented by
Wayne Agency
Kristen McCullough

About

A lifelong affair.

Kristen is an emerging Los Angeles–based playwright and Ovation Award–winning actress. A member of a curated writers' collective led by award-winning playwright and filmmaker Del Shores (Sordid Lives, Southern Baptist Sissies), she has developed her craft under his mentorship alongside a community of working writers.

Her debut stage play, Sharp Curves, born from a personal family experience, received its first staged reading at the Broadwater Theater in Los Angeles in 2023. Her newest work, Dancing on the Titanic, received a reading at the Broadwater earlier this year.

As an actress, Kristen received her Ovation Award for Del Shores' YELLOW. She brings to the page everything the stage taught her about truth, character, and human connection.

Acting

Stage & screen.

Theater

  • WoundedKatie (Lead)SoHo Playhouse, NYC
  • The Red SuitcaseAprilBroadwater Theater Main, LA
  • YELLOWKate (Lead)The Coast Playhouse, LA
  • The LyonsLisaKalita Humphreys Theater
  • YELLOWKate (Lead)Kalita Humphreys Theater
  • The Drama DepartmentEliseKalita Humphreys Theater
  • Good Boys and TrueElizabethKalita Humphreys Theater
  • The Vagina MonologuesNarratorComplete Actors Place, LA
  • Laundry & BourbonHattieZephyr Theater, LA
  • Peace ChildJennifer (Lead)Wortham Center
  • Noises OffPoppyStage Center

Film & Television

  • Selling Sherman WayCo-StarStefanie Khan
  • Rockin' ReverendSupportingScot Michael Walker
  • Blues for WilladeanSupportingDel Shores
  • Resurrection BoulevardCo-StarJesus Trevino (Showtime)
  • Desert VowsSupportingMike Merrell
  • Brace YourselfLeadMichael Wechsler
  • Chump ChangeSupportingSteve Burrows
  • The HecklerSupportingSloppy Joe Films
  • LaundryLeadBrady Torgeson
  • To My Sweet BabyLeadNichole Stephens
  • Soccer News USACo-HostJoe Black, Producer

Training

  • Cameron WatsonScene Study
  • Glenn MorshowerScene Study
  • Del ShoresScene Study
  • Cameron Thor StudiosScene Study
  • Margie Haber StudiosCold Reading
  • Ivana Chubbuck StudioScene Study
  • Carolyne BarryAdvanced Commercial Technique
  • Joe ReichImprov & Cold Reading
  • Texas A&M UniversityBA, Theater Arts

Special Skills

Singing (Mezzo Soprano / Soprano, Belt) · Dialects: British, Southern, Texan · Voiceover · Improvisation · Equestrian · Diving & Scuba · Snow Skiing · Boxing · Yoga · Cycling · Roller Skating

Representation

Wayne Agency

California — (310) 492-5994Virginia — (804) 661-5354

Headshots

Headshot — green backdrop
Headshot — navy blazer
Headshot — denim
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Writing

The plays.

01

Dark comedy · Drama · Cast of 4

Dancing on the Titanic

Reading — Broadwater Theater, Los Angeles

Two sisters who have spent decades bound together by loyalty, resentment, and a devastating shared secret find their fragile balance beginning to collapse after a family health scare forces old tensions back to the surface. Caught between them is Paloma, the sharp-witted and emotionally restless daughter who has spent her life searching for connection without fully understanding what's been withheld from her. As the women struggle over love, guilt, and who has the right to tell the truth, Dancing on the Titanic unfolds as a darkly funny and emotionally explosive portrait of family, sacrifice, and the stories people create to survive one another.

02

Stage play · Debut work

Sharp Curves

Staged Reading — Broadwater Theater, Los Angeles (2023)

In the heart of Nashville, a self-assured woman in her late 40's grapples with the sudden revelation of her true paternity while her fractured family reunites to navigate a legacy of lies, love, and one rebellious teenage son. As deep-seated secrets unravel, she must determine if she can maintain control or if the sharp curves of life will send her careening off course.

Videos

On film.

Featured performance reel

More on screen

Additional performance video and an extended demo reel are available through the Actors Access casting profile.

Press & Awards

In their own words.

Cowgill and McCullough take us from marital bliss to marital anguish in convincing fashion.
The Hollywood Reporter
YELLOW — Coast Playhouse
McCullough and Cowgill's dissolve from a placidly devoted couple to two strangers lacking foundation couldn't be more believable.
Variety
YELLOW — Coast Playhouse
McCullough, repeating the role that won her awards in the original Los Angeles production, is the most consistent — suitably intense but never too emphatic.
The Dallas Morning News
YELLOW — Uptown Players
Katie, his wife — excellent Kristen McCullough.
On Stage Los Angeles
YELLOW — Coast Playhouse
Their daughter Lisa, a tremulous, tightly-wound Kristen McCullough, a single mom and recovering alcoholic, is an easy target for her mother.
TheaterJones
The Lyons — Uptown Players
McCullough, so memorable in Shores' YELLOW, isn't given nearly enough to do as April, but even in her brief scenes, she shines.
StageSceneLA
The Red Suitcase — Broadwater Mainstage

Awards & Honors

  • Ovation Award — Best Actress, YELLOW (Del Shores)
  • LA Drama Critics Best New Play — YELLOW
  • LA Weekly Award — YELLOW
  • Backstage Garland Award — YELLOW
  • SoHo Playhouse Fringe Encore Series — Overall Excellence (Wounded)

Contact

Let's be in touch.

For representation inquiries, please contact Wayne Agency. For writing, press, or anything else, reach out directly.

Representation — Wayne Agency

CA · (310) 492-5994 VA · (804) 661-5354