Kathy Scambiatterra & Kristin Collins

Teaches at The Artistic Home Acting Studio

Kathy Scambiatterra

Kathy Scambiatterra is Artistic Director and co-founder of The Artistic Home. Chicago acting credits include: The Seagull, Interrogation, Watch on the Rhine, Beaten, The American Plan, Sweet Bird Of Youth, The Skin of Our Teeth, Look Homeward Angel, Juno and the Paycock, Natural Affection, Orpheus Descending (The Artistic Home); The Glass Menagerie, Nelson Algren Live, The Diary of Anne Frank (Steppenwolf); Broadway Bound (Drury Lane Oakbrook); A Flea in her Ear (Chicago Shakespeare); Romeo and Juliet (Goodman Theatre), among others. Regional credits; The Quick Change Room (Pacific Resident Theatre). TV/Film credits: recurring role on Chicago PD, The Appointment, Draggage, Sin Collector, Into the Wake. She has received 4 leading role Jeff nominations for work in Sweet Bird of Youth, Natural Affection, Abundance , The School for Wives. As a director, she has helmed acclaimed, Jeff nominated and After Dark Award winning productions for The Artistic Home including: Waiting for Lefty, In the Boom Boom Room, Angel City, After the Fall, Street Scene, Peer Gynt, The Madwoman of Chaillot, The Petrified Forest, Modigliani, Days to Come, The Touch of the Poet, The Night of the Iguana, The Time of Your Life. Other directing credits: The Copperhead (City Lit), Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays (LA Dramalogue Award), A Christmas Carol (Pacific Resident Theater (LA). Ms. Scambiatterra is the director of the actor training program at The Artistic Home Studio. In addition, she has taught at The School at Steppenwolf, Columbia College, Center Theater's The Training Center, Chicago, IL; Carolyn Berry Studio, The Pacific Resident Theatre LA, CA; Director’s Symposium, US Army, Heidelberg, Germany; Screen Training Ireland, Dublin, Ireland; and currently at Chicago High School for the Arts, Classical Conservatory.

Kristin Collins

Kristin Collins joined the company as an ensemble member in 2010 after serving as assistant director for the world-premiere of Jim Lynch's The Tallest Man. Kristin has appeared onstage at The Artistic Home as Hester Swane in By The Bog of Cats, Doris Walker in Miracle on 34th Street, Vanessa in Interrogation, Sara in Watch on the Rhine, Madelynne in Beaten, June in Marisol, Miss Lucy in Sweet Bird of Youth and Tina in Memories from Dreamland, which was featured in Cut to the Chase. In 2013, she was nominated for a Non-Equity Jeff Award for Principal Actress in a Play for her portrayal of Theresa Bedell in Boy Gets Girl at Raven Theatre. Other notable Chicago credits include Margery in Victory Gardens Hand To God(understudy/performed), Sally Truman in Eclipse Theatre’s Lips Together, Teeth Apart , Mary Maude in Vieux Carre and Laura in the world-premiere of Dating Walter Dante at Raven Theatre, Jackie in the world-premiere The Killing of Michael X: A New Film by Celia Wallace at Jackalope Theatre, Beth in the Midwest premiere of The Mistakes Madeline Made at LiveWire Chicago and Sam in the midwest premiere of Neil LaBute's Some Girl(s) at Profiles Theatre, and Strawdog Theatre's production of Barbecue (performed as part of Steppenworlf's Looking Out Series.)