Kathryn Johnson Schwartz is an actress, playwright, director and arts educator. Professional theatre credits include acting, directing and teaching for South Coast Repertory Theatre; founding and administering The Pasadena Playhouse Young Actors School; acting at numerous venues throughout the southern California area, including the Odyssey Theatre and Grove Shakespeare Festival; writing and directing original children’s musicals for Hollywood/Los Feliz Jewish Community Center and others; and working as an arts consultant, mentor artist and curriculum writer for the education arm of The Music Center, for Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, Pasadena Unified School District, Los Angeles Arts Group and Culver City High School Academy of Visual and Performing Arts, and others. She has taught theatre and playwriting classes throughout southern California; she served as Program Director for Playwrights Project from 1988 until 2006. She earned a B.A. from University of California, Santa Barbara, and pursued graduate studies in directing and children’s theatre at California State University at Fullerton.