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Katya was nominated 3 times for Best Supporting Actress at Paper Mill Playhouse's High School Theater Awards in her time at FLHS. She is also a graduate of Paper Mill's acclaimed summer conservatory.

She was a professional Latin Ballroom Dancer for 10 years under the training of Maksim Chmerkovskiy, from Dancing With the Stars. She placed as Top 3 in the USABDA National Competition when she was only 12 years old.

Trained at Carnegie Mellon University's prestigious School of Drama, whose other graduates include: Zachary Quinto, Cherry Jones, Ted Danson, Matt Bomer, Andy Warhol, Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Manganello, Sutton Foster, Josh Groban, Patrick Wilson, Cote de Pablo, Christian Borle, Holly Hunter, Cory Cott, Ian Harding, Denee Benton, Ethan Hawke, Megan Hilty, Phylicia Rashad, Tamara Tunie, Steven Bochco, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Judith Light, Patina Miller, Billy Porter, Stephen Schwartz, Pablo Schreiber, Aaron Staton, John Wells, and many more.

Wrote and performed two original songs in the upcoming feature film, Accommodations, starring Kat Foster and Patrick Heusinger.

After graduating from CMU, she co-founded In the Basement Theater Company with 25 other CMU Alumni. The company earned a 3-month long residency at a 12-room former insane asylum basement turned Art venue called Arts @ Renaissance in Brooklyn. They installed and ran an immersive show called "The Lady in Red Converses with Diablo" which took 15 audience members through an original myth told in personal one-on-one experiences, song and dance. The members of the collective still work together independently to this day, creating original work in New York City.