Kathryn Mowat Murphy

Broadway and Equity National tours: Fosse (Steam Heat, Trumpet, Ann Reinking Dir), Chicago (Annie, Walter Bobbie Dir), Sweet Charity(Nickie, Wayne Cilento Choreographer), Pal Joey (Diane, Joe Mantello Dir, Graciela Daniele Choreo), A Chorus Line (Sheila, Mitzi Hamilton Dir) Regional Equity Theater: Steel PierA Chorus Line, (6 different productions as Cassie) with Baayork Lee, Kay Cole, Donna Drake Directors. Pre- Broadway workshops: Eves Turn (Eve),Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, (Ens) Off-Broadway: NYMTF Plane Crazy (Shirley & assistant Choreographer), Camp Wanatachi (Aunty Jo).

Television: NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” with Antonio Banderas, “I Carly” (Nickelodeon). Kat Co-Choreographed ‘Milord’ solo with Labyrinth Dance Company and performed in the Edinburgh Festival 2011. In 2012 she played Nickie in Sweet Charity and was associate choreographer with Randy Slovacek at the Lyric Theater, OK. Kat debuted and performed in her new piece, ‘Wounded but not Hurt’, with four gloriously talented and seasoned Broadway male dancers to critical acclaim in the 2013 performance of Dancers Over 40, ‘The Story of Our Lives’.

In 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2017 Kat was associate choreographer to Randy Slovacek at the Sacramento Music Circus and  played Hunyak in Chicago, Laura (Larry) in A Chorus Line, Edna (Mayors Wife) in Bye Bye Birdie and just recently Sister Act. Kat was one of the stars in Tricia Brouks new musical smash hit ‘Committed’. Kat is a company member of the Visible Ink patient writing program for cancer patients at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in NYC. Visible Ink allows patients to write about any topic of their choice, in any form of memoir, fiction, personal essays, poetry, stage or screenplays, etc. – and be mentored by Emmy and Tony Award-winning writers, NY Times bestselling authors, and editors and writers from the nations most popular magazines. Each year an anthology is published of their works, and then selected works are chosen for a staged reading featuring actors, singers and dancers from film, television, and the Broadway stage. Kat is an original company member and has appeared in all 10 years of staged readings as an actress and as a dancer.

Kat has her own Branded workout (KatMoJAM™) She filmed her first video KatMoJAM ‘The Beginning’ May 2012 and it is available on her website. KatMoJAM has been featured in Shape Magazine and on ‘The Better Show.’

Kat has taught all over the world. She also has been a guest teacher for the Summer Intensives at the American Academy of Ballet at Purchase College.
Since August 2014 Kat has also been working in North Carolina and has developed a jazz curriculum for ages 7-18. 

In 2017 Kat established her own nonprofit jazz company for ages 7 to 18 and directs two shows a year. With the help of the wonderful choreographers she hire, Kat strives to create a wonderful safe environment for dancers to learn how a professional company works. She contracts people who will challenge and prepare those who wish to continue on into the field of professional performance.

Her website is www.katmojam.com.