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Krista is a Toronto (Los Angeles and NYC) based full-time and passionate multi-creative.

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).

An artist on stage and off she has worked as leather mask-maker, set designer, set builder, costumier, Artists Director and many creative roles in between. If something creative is happening she is drawn in.

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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. Sutton's career soared to new levels of industry awareness with a key scene in the much talked about film, American Psycho: called the "It Girl" at Sundance, Sutton's role opposite Christian Bale generated international coverage.

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, Shauna Bellman on The Associates, on Ken Finkleman's The Newsroom, and in guest roles on The Neighbors (Jami Gertz) Missing (Justin Louis) Kevin Hill (opposite Taye Diggs), This is Wonderland, and West Wing (Jimmy Smits.)

Her film work has included roles opposite Richard Dreyfuss and Judy Davis as Georgia in Coast to Coast, Welcome to Mooseport, Stir of Echos II (Rob Lowe), Jack and Jill vs the World (Freddie Prinze Jr), Doomstown, 30 Nights and she starred in the renowned short film The Dogwalker, which was a 2003 Toronto International, Montreal World and Palm Springs Film Festival selection. It is an award winning film including a 2004 Genie Award nomination for best short film.

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) and 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 the 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 landed roles Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons, Circle Rep, La MaMa ETC, and The Vital Theatre Company. She played Pam oppostie 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 and has taught it in Toronto, New York's inner city schools, Theatre Sports Chicago and at Gotham City Improv, NYC among many others.

Krista is mama to two humans aged 11 and 16.