Krista Sutton is a Toronto (Los Angeles and NYC) based full-time and passionate multicreative

- actor, singer, artist-

artist

An artist on stage and off Krista has been gallery-shown and commissioned as an artist in pen and ink, paper and glass, vintage found object and many materials in between. She has worked as leather mask-maker, set designer, set builder, set decorator, costumier, Artistic Director and many creative roles. If something creative is happening Sutton is drawn in.

An accomplished and well known international Dora Award nominated actor/singer/writer and artist Sutton is graduate of Toronto’s renowned UC Drama Program. She has studied and worked with some of the world’s most influential creatives: Robert Lepage (Canada), Herbert Olschok (Germany), Jean Jacques LeMetre (France), Paolo Consignlio (Italy) and Robert Wilson (USA).

Krista is also a highly sought after educator working with creatives and actors at the University of Toronto, the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, Gotham City Improv NYC, Theatre Sports Chicago and Broadway’s New Victory Theatre to name just a few.

She collaborates in life and art with Laura Moon at www.SuttonMoon.com

She is mama to two fabulous and creative humans aged 13 and 17 and two doggos.

actress

Dora Award nominee and co-star of the Genie nominated short The Dogwalker, Krista Sutton has years of professional acting experience in Toronto, NYC and Los Angeles.

A very familiar face for not only her widely played hit comedic commercials for Special K including with Cindy Crawford, Sutton has played a range of supporting and leading roles. Her much-loved role as Liz Irwin-Gallo on the nightly improv soap opera Train 48 was seen for over 340 episodes on Canada's Global TV. Krista has also been seen in numerous TV appearances, including as herself as quirky sitcom wife on Comedy Central's Punched up. Past credits include Lorna Luft, in the ABC mini-series Me and My Shadows, The Associates, The Newsroom, and in guest roles on The Neighbors (Jami Gertz) Missing (Justin Louis) Kevin Hill (opposite Taye Diggs), This is Wonderland, West Wing (Jimmy Smits.), and most recently on Murdoch Mysteries and Working Moms. She plays a recurring role as Paula on The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh.

Her film work has included roles opposite Christian Bale in American Psycho, Richard Dreyfuss and Judy Davis Coast to Coast, Welcome to Mooseport, Stir of Echos II (Rob Lowe), Jack and Jill vs the World (Freddie Prinze Jr), Doomstown, and she starred in the renowned short film The Dogwalker, which was a Toronto International, Montreal World and Palm Springs Film Festival selection. It is an award winning film including a Genie Award nomination for best short film.

On stage in Toronto and New York, Sutton starred in Brock Simpson's This Could Be Love; it was a triumphant Dora-Nominated return and she received rave reviews for her performance:

Sutton's goofy glamor lights up the small stage.(Kate Taylor, Globe and Mail)

Sutton can out sing, out act, out pratfall Rene Zellweger in her sleep. Her performance is musical theatre gold ! Eye Weekly.

She then reprised this acclaimed role at the prestigious New York Musical Festival where critics compared her to TONY award winning Beth Leavel (The Drowsy Chaperone). She was co-producer.

The theatre is where Sutton started her career. Upon graduation, Sutton embarked on a European Tour with the Berliner-Ensemble directed production of The House of Bernarda Alba. Returning to Canada, she played in MacBeth directed by Robert Lepage. Other selected stage credits include the Mary Magdalene role in the much-heralded revival of Godspell at the Bathurst Street Theatre and Thaisa in Pericles (Festival of Classics). Sutton's yearlong run in The Vagina Monologues had her sharing the stage with Sheila MacCarthy, Dana Reeve, Elvira Kurt, Jann Arden, Carole Pope, Jeanne Beker and Erin Brockovich

In New York Sutton has been seen Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons, Circle Rep, La MaMa ETC, and The Vital Theatre Company. She played Pam opposite Hunter Foster in The Full Monty and in Los Angeles she starred as Queenie in The Wild Party.

Fluent in American Sign Language, Sutton was active in the Deaf Theatre scene in New York and went on to play Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream in ASL.

In her off-stage time, she studied with renowned Broadway performer David Shiner (Cirque Du Soleil, Fool Moon).

She has extensive training in Commedia dell'Arte, Improv and Clowning.