Katherine Renee Shindle (born January 31, 1977) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and AIDS activist.

[5][9] She appeared in a concert version of Jeykll & Hyde in September 2004 at the Mohegan Sun Casino's Cabaret Theatre in Uncasville, Connecticut, playing Lucy.

[10] She then toured in the United States with the concert version, starting in September 2005, and recorded the role on the Jekyll & Hyde: Resurrection album.

[11] In 2014, she wrote a memoir, Being Miss America: Behind the Rhinestone Curtain, published by the University of Texas Press.

[2][12] In 2015, she defeated incumbent Nick Wyman for the presidency of the Actors' Equity Association,[13] a position she held until 2024, when she declined to run for another term.