About Kathy Jo
Kathy Jo Barrett
Kathy Jo received her Associates Degree in theatre from Berkshire Community College and immediately began performing at the Berkshire Public Theatre in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She is a founding member of Mixed Company in Gt. Barrington, Massachusetts. Kathy Jo worked in Manhattan for three years performing her own nightclub act and in that time also performed in regional theatre in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Kathy Jo returned to the Berkshires in 1987 to raise her son, Michael, and again began working at the Berkshire Public Theatre where her roles included Lois Lane in "Superman, the Musical", Gypsy Rose Lee in "Gypsy", Georgie in "Spike Heels", and dozens of other featured parts.
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She made the role of the "Ghost of Christmas Past" her own in the many years that she played it in the theatre's annual production of "A Christmas Carol". In 1996 she starred in Joan Ackerman's original play "The Batting Cage", which is now preparing to go off-Broadway. In another facet of her career, she has yearly captured the imaginations of the local academic community through her evocative portrayals of historical literary figures in productions of professor and playwright Frances Benn Hall's original "neo-Noh" plays.
Since 1990 she has been working with David Grover performing children's music, touring the country and appearing on television as a member of the Big Bear Band.