57.Confessions of a Visible Woman with Writer & Plus-sized Actress Kristin Cantwell

Welcome to the Eff Your Fears Podcast, where funny lady Ashley Monique Menard chats with her Funny & big-hearted friend Kristin Cantwell. Kristin is an incredibly talented writer, voice-over artist, and plus-size actress who shares her journey in the arts with Ashley and you! The two talk about what it's like being a big girl in theater, film, and tv and how Kristin prepared to play a cat...voice a cat. Kristin is an actor, writer, improviser, and aspiring cat lady based in New York City. She's appeared on The Path (Hulu), The Shorts Show, and many other web series, independent films, and theatre productions. You will be able to watch her in the upcoming seasons of the award-winning web series Skeleton Crew and Demon Doctor. And, like every other actor out there, got a microphone during the pandemic and has started dipping her toes into that world too. She'll get to use her cat lady skills in the upcoming animated short film, Kris the Cat.

Originally from Virginia, Kristin has a BA in Theater from the University of Mary Washington. Her one-person shows, Confessions of an Invisible Woman and Butter: a love story, premiered to sold-out audiences at the Capital Fringe Festival in Washington, DC. She also co-founded, wrote, and performed with her sketch comedy group, Curvy by Nature. When she's not performing or writing (or saying she needs to write and then cleaning her entire apartment instead), she can be found cuddling with her cat, Thom, showing real estate around NYC as part of her day job, taking classes at Kimball Studio, reading books, cooking, dancing it out, and trying to stay joyful in a pandemic. You can follow her on Instagram, @thekristincantwell.