About Katie

Hello friends! Katie would like to welcome you to her website, her heart, and her home. (Edit: Katie said I’m not actually allowed to just ‘invite random people to her home’ ??)

Originally from Sacramento, Katie is a Los Angeles based actress, writer, comedian and singer/songwriter. When she’s not ABSOLUTELY MUTHA FUCKIN SLAYIN, you can typically find her knitting a scarf while explaining in specific detail, where to find the best cupcakes in an accent of a sturdy 90-year-old Jewish woman. (Disclaimer: she only wishes she were a 90-year-old Jewish woman… but as you can tell from these whimsical portraits, she is not) 

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Sometimes her content (#QueenOfContent) will make you think. Sometimes it will make you dream. Sometimes it will make you pee your pants. Or all of the above. At the same time. (Thought provoking original material that induces overactive bladders!? Sign me up baby!)

Katie’s most recent credits include her FunnyOrDie original parody trailer, “What’s The Deal, “ starring in the Comedy Central sketch show “Brief and Futile Love Stories,” and generally making comedy her father does not approve of.

(Yet another freakin’ disclaimer: Katie would like me to tell you that her father actually really liked her FunnyOrDie trailer because it had to do with Jerry Seinfeld, and her Dad loves Jerry Seinfeld…)

Katie also recently helped re-write the original musical, "Mannequin Man by Day, Tenor by Night" (Debuted in 2018, and returning full force 2020!) In addition to low key just WRITING MUSICALS, Katie performs musical comedy, live, on the regs. Go see her Comedy Cabaret, once a month, at The Lyric Hyperion Theatre in Silver Lake.

“It truly is one of the most enjoyable shows in LA” - says everyone.

She also recently wrote, directed and starred in multiple comedy music videos (releasing in 2020). Rachel Bloom Who?? (Speaking of which: if you have Rachel Bloom’s contact info, Katie would love to have Rachel - first name basis - perform in her Cabaret.)

A TIME THAT CAME BEFORE ‘MOST RECENTLY’

Katie also recently finished the ENTIRE Groundling's program (just 6 years of her life) and woo-wee does she feel accomplished (and very funny!)

Skipping back through time, it is imperative I inform you Katie was once a Ninja. That’s right. A singing ninja. Katie’s one-woman show, This Life Chose Me: A Ninja Musical was invited to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013, where she received a Fringe Top Pick from WhatsOnStage (Only 40 shows out of 2800 received this mention.)

Being a ninja is only one of the many on-stage personas Ms. Wilbert (I know, that felt as unnatural for me typing it as it did for you reading it) has portrayed or written in an impressive list of writing, acting and directing in the theatre. (Katie requests you pronounce “theatre” like a 74-year-old pretentious British actor wearing a purple and pink plaid ascot, with a velvet red robe and smoking a pipe in front of a vintage fireplace.)

And no big deal…but Katie graduated from BOTH Second City’s Improv/Sketch conservatory AND their directing program (with a 4.5 GPA…wait….I’m being told comedy college isn’t real college??)

Some of her other accomplishments that took place at Second City include writing & directing the following SC sketch revue shows: Shametown (2017), Safe Space (2016), Jeff Goldblume Time Traveling Prophet (2015), and Love Mafia (2014). She also performed as Chelsea Clinton in Second City’s Premium show President Hillary (2015) and was a staff writer/songwriter for the premium Second City political satire musical, Candidates Confessions: A Cabaret. (2016) 

MORE THINGS THAT WILL REALLY IMPRESS YOU AND MAKE YOU LIKE KATIE

Katie was also the host of the SNL after show on AfterBuzzTV - if you like listening to people dissect sketch comedy, you would really love this show.

Katie also formed a musical comedy duo, JK Comedy, with fellow funny lady, Jessie Sherman. JK Comedy tackles real life issues with deliciously catchy melodies and comedic music videos. See their most recent videos “Lady Business,” and “Are We Dating, Or Are We Just Friends”