Actor / Director Profile

Kate Flannery plays alcoholic Meredith Palmer on NBC's The Office. Her comedy lounge act, The Lampshades continues to play Hollywood and many clubs around the country opening for the Dan Band from time to time. Kate played Harper's mom on Wizards of Waverly Place and her other TV work includes Last Comic Standing, the Jay Leno Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm and she was the voice of Lucy in a Robert Smigel cartoon on SNL. She did a video with Eric McCormack for Funny or Die called Finger Babies. Kate played Neely O'Hara in the off-Broadway hit, Valley of the Dolls at the Circle in the Square in NYC and LA's Coast Playhouse and the Bing Theatre. She's on the Valley of the Dolls' DVD extras. A former member of Second City's National Tour Co., she is an original member of Chicago's Annoyance Theater where she co-created over 15 shows including the Miss Vagina Pageant and the Real Live Brady Bunch (playing over 30 cities and the Kennedy Center). LA audiences have seen her in the Phacts of Life at the Renberg Theatre and in the Lily Tomlin / Jane Wagner production of Three Feet Under at the Evidence Room. Kate performed live in They Might Be Giants' John Flansburgh's band, Monopuff (you can hear her on their album, It's Fun To Steal). She studied musical theater for two years at Shenandoah Conservatory. Kate graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia where her family owns an Irish bar.