K.C. Ligon

Writer/performer/dialector

I have been a professional performer most of my life. Born to it, not in a trunk, but appearing onstage before I was born, in Noel Coward's "Red Peppers," I was on Broadway in "Under Milk Wood" at eight, and on tour with the Lunts at eleven (you may not be old enough to know who they were, so to give you an idea, they were an acting couple once called the darlings of two continents--she was English, he was American--and by the time I encountered them they were engaged in what would be their last stage appearance together: "The Visit").

I attended Professional Children's School from first grade through senior year of high school, graduating in '66. and started my tv career as a teenager on "Camera Three" and "The Patty Duke Show." I am an alum of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program, a member of the first graduating class.

My theatre resume includes two musicals for New York Shakespeare Festival's Public Theater, "The Mod Donna, " directed by Joseph Papp, and "Subject to Fits," and "Hamlet," "The Importance of Being Earnest" and "Travesties" at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. I was featured in "Merton of the Movies, " directed by Burt Shevelove and starring Richard Thomas, at the Ahmanson Theatre, Music Center in LA.

I became a professional writer in the 80s and also my mother Nora Dunfee's associate in dialect work with actors, which led to my own practice and career in theatre and on film, and teaching at Circle in the Square in New York, City University of New York, The New Actors Workshop, and the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, CAP-21 Program.

As a dialect consultant I am and have been privileged to collaborate with many extraordinary artists over the years, I would say some of the most creative working in our field today, or at any time in theatrical history: James Earl Jones, Mary-Louise Parker, B.D. Wong, Laura Linney, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Justin Kirk, James Gandolfini, Jane Krakowski, Anthony LaPaglia, Cynthia Nixon, Estelle Parsons, Margo Martindale, Billy Crudup, Ron Perlman, Victor Slezak, Celia Weston, David Morse, Michael Pitt, Thomas Gibson, Matthew Lillard, Leigh Taylor Young, Dey Young, Randi Graff, Michele Pawk, Carole Shelley, Philip Bosco, Elizabeth Ashley, Mercedes Ruehl, Sally Struthers, Kim Raver, Matthew Saldivar, David Lansbury, Myra Carter, Katherine Borowitz, Jobeth Williams, Pat Hingle, Molly Regan, Mark Nelson, Everett Quinton, Bronson Pinchot, Robert Stattel, Alan Knee, David Aaron Baker, Jayne Atkinson, Bernie McInerney, Crista Moore, Douglas Hughes, Dylan Baker, John Michael Higgins, Brian Murray, Dennis Christopher, Thomas Sadoski, Jamie Moss, Peter Stebbings, Laura Regan, Athol Fugard, David Warren, Robert Falls, Scott Ellis, Emily Mann, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Vanessa Parise, Zoe Wanamaker, Claire Bloom, Agapi Stassinopoulos, Michael Cumpsty, David Turner, Brent Spiner, Linda Emond, Cass Maguire, Kevin Ligon, Michael Winther, Gregg Edelman, Carolee Carmello, Barbara Walsh, Jack Cummings III, Matthew Morrison, Boyd Gaines, Stephen Spinella, John Slattery, Denis O'Hare, Stephen Wadsworth, David Leveaux, Maria Tucci, Elizabeth Franz, Jack Hofsis, Loretta Greco, Edward Berkeley, Alan Langdon, Moni Yakim, Mina Yakim and Tom Ligon, to whom I have been married since New Years Eve 1976.

My agent is Mr. Francis Del Duca, Fifi Oscard Agency.
http://www.fifioscard.com/

More biographical details may be viewed at http://www.imdb.com as well as http://www.ibdb.com and http://www.circlesquare.org

My stellar assistants: the brilliantly talented young actors Jeff Berg, Stephen Sheffer, Patrick Cann, Ryan Farrell, Daniel Ball, Kyle Kirkpatrick and Zachary Spicer.

For my mini-biography of Edward de Vere, see his listing at http://www.imdb.com

And see my book-in-progress at http://kcligon.wordpress.com