Like "All Immigrants" who first come to New York City, Kate sold batteries in the subways and "Her Soul to the Devil". It's "a hard way to make a living" especially when "Picky New Yorkers" regularly check the "shelf life" of products they purchase. Shortly thereafter, she "changed pimps" and began selling "Street News" where she soon became Senior Editor. She was then "snatched up" by Rupert Murdoch and the News Corporation. It was this break that financed "her big jokes", her "Real Estate Holdings" and "College Education".
Somewhere between Indonesia, Canada, Australia and then the Subways of New York City, she became "seriously funny". She went on to The Juilliard School where she graduated with an acting degree. Not long after, the "club scene" drew her to Caroline's Comedy Club, NYC, from there she brought her funky urban Asian sensibility to The Kennedy Center, The Smithsonian Institute, Chicago Museum of Modern Art, and The Public Theater.
She has preformed at the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival, the Toyota Comedy Festival, The Marshalls Women in Comedy Festival, and developed her first comedy and music revue for NBC's PSNBC in New York, and the HBO Time Warner workspace in Los Angeles. This show "Kate's Chink-O-Rama: featuring the chinkorama dancers" is a New York city favorite at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater. Her follow up "Birth of a nASIAN" played at the Mark Taper Forum's Summerfest (developed at La Mama ETC, New York City), MACLA in San Jose, the New World Theater in Massachusetts, the Vancouver Comedy Festival, Women in Theater Conference Toronto, ConWorks Seattle, OutNorth Alaska, MACLA, CCE Portland and the Comedy Central Theater L.A as part of their 2007 season.
Kate has appeared on NBC Late Friday, CTV Women of The Night, NPR, CBC Radio, Sirius Radio, STAR TV, National Lampoon's International Comedy DVD, Comedy Central, SEX TV, PBS, Latin American TV, vH1, as well as being profiled in the film Race is the Place Alongside Amiri Baraka and Danny Hoch (aired at festivals and on PBS). She has produced numerous comedy shows for RIPE TV and Time Warner on demand, and The Naughty Show Bad Girls of Comedy Show, which is in international release on DVD by Eagle Rock Entertainment.
Her Hip Hop band, Slanty Eyed Mama has toured the US, Canada and Australia, notably at the Perth International Arts Festival in Australia, the Eurasian Nation Festival, the Asian Film Festival at University of Michigan, the A/PI heritage fest in Union Square NYC, LA's GRAND Performances at City Center, The Asian American Jazz Festival in Chicago, Girl Fest Hawaii, Soundfest NYC, The Philadelphia Fringe Fest and the Women in Performance Conference and the Smithsonian Institutes' keynote 2007 Asian Heritage Month Performance.
Kate was a 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fellow as well as a 2005 NEA grant recipient to develop new work. In 2006 she won the Urban Arts Initiative Grant through the Asian American Arts Alliance, the Ludwig Vogelstein Award to develop new work and one of the Asian Women's Giving Circle's Inaugural Grants to Artists for her work in the Asian American community. She has been awarded grants and prizes by The Toronto Arts Council, The Canada Council, The PatsyLu Fund for Women in Music, Dixon Place, The Australia Council for the Arts, The Norma Epstein Foundation, The Juilliard School Interarts Program, and the University of Melbourne.
As an actor she recurs on Law and Order, Fox's Family Guy, and starred in the New York premieres of Dogeaters at the Public Theater, and BFE at Playwright's Horizons. Off Broadway she was in the Vagina Monologues at the Westside Theater, The Most Fabulous Story Every Told, at Minetta Lane and Sez She, at the Mark Taper Forum. She frequently hosts events, some of which include: The Coalition of Asian Children and Families Benefit (NYC), The Asian Women's Giving Circle Awards (NY), The Asian American Recovery Services Mentor Luncheon (San Francisco), The Sistering Shelter for Homeless Women Benefit (Toronto), Eurasian Nation's Launch Party (NY), Queen's Pride, The Dinah Shore Weekend VIP Pool Party, The Heritage of Pride NYC Rally, Bryant Park, The NYU Asian Heritage Month Fashion and Arts Show, the A/PI Heritage Month Conference Smith College, A/PI Heritage Month New York in Union Square Park. She has appeared on Damages, QVC, Hey Paula, TOP CHEF, Flavor of Love, Big Love, Reaper, Three's Company and Arrested Development. She has spoken or/written about Asian American culture and representation in: Time Magazine, The Globe and Mail, On and Off Magazine, The San Francisco Examiner, THIS Magazine, NOW Magazine and CBC Radio.
Kate still dreams of one day living in "The White House"... or being booked there. She's a very funny lady!
Sincerely,
Richard Currier
Produced & Directed by Richard Currier. (Excerpt/Clips)
©2008 richardcurrier
Discover Kate @:
http://www.katerigg.com/
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That was so funny. It's great how she can interact with people on a one to one basis.
great video.
FortiusAltius 1 month ago in playlist More videos from richardcurrier
Ha ha ha...very funny....
Jbalaji 7 months ago
we invented everything
FullBloodedHmoob 1 year ago
She is a Korean
unclehe 1 year ago
oh shit, im scared hah
graffnameseed 1 year ago
Your pasta is one long rice noodle, our pasta is no such thing, give me a break..E comunque mi sa che nn hai molto di orientale apparte l'aspetto...bah!
filthysouth88 1 year ago
LOL old lady caught her bad accent!!
ohm4 1 year ago
She is hilarious! You have to have a good sense of humor, and maybe a little dirty mind to go along with it. Loved the Pussy Galore, and the boyfriend is a double A, and we all strive to be a double D, but not many are. She is annoying, but at the same time very entertaining. Thanks for a good laugh!
Warmest Regards,
Nettie
nettiebach100 2 years ago
this girl is very funny lol.
2MLYU 2 years ago
Nice! I give it a DD.
PrinceMio49 2 years ago