Kathy Deitch grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and moved to New York to attend Wagner College where she graduated with honors and received the Departmental Award for Theatre. She made her Broadway debut in the original cast of FOOTLOOSE as Urleen and later created the role of Shen Shen in the smash Broadway hit WICKED. She made her LA acting debut at the Hollywood Bowl in RENT directed by Neil Patrick Harris and won an LA Weekly award in SILENCE! THE MUSICAL (Catherine). This summer she opened the smash Off-Broadway hit TITANIQUE at the Asylum as The Unsinkable Molly Brown and had a dream come true playing Judge Bowers on LAW & ORDER this season. Other screen credits include: AMERICAN HORROR STORY: FREAK SHOW, NEW AMSTERDAM, the ensemble thriller LOFT and MAGIC MIKE XXL.

As a teacher, Kathy has brought her Audition Boot Camp to students of all ages across the country and currently is a professor for the BFA program at Hussian College in Los Angeles. Other top theatre programs have invited her to work with their best and brightest, including UCLA, Pace University, University of Hartford and her alma mater, Wagner College.
As an activist looking to combat body bias, Kathy co-created PLUS THIS! SHOW, a weekly vodcast that highlights fat women & non-binary folx and their allies for five seasons on UBN GO. IG @ladeitche & @PlusThisShow