Katy Sullivan

Katy Sullivan is an American actress producer writer and Paralympic track and field athlete and US record holder Sullivan was born a bilateral transfemoral amputee missing both lower legs She grew up in Alabama pursuing interests in gymnastics singing and acting and received a BFA in acting from Webster Universitys Conservatory in St Louis As an actress she has performed in The Long Red Road at the Goodman Theatre directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman and as the title character in Shakespeares Richard III with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater in 2024 She has appeared in television shows and independent films including the awardwinning documentary Walk On Sullivan has been seen on NBCs My Name Is Earl ABCs Last Man Standing with Tim Allen FXs comedy Legit CBS NCIS New Orleans and appears as Esther in the 2021 reboot of the Showtime series Dexter Sullivan starred as Ani alongside Wendell Pierce in the world premiere of Cost of Living at the Williamstown Theatre Festival Sullivan reprised the role of Ani in the Manhattan Theatre Clubs Pulitzer Prizewinning offBroadway production of Cost of Living for which she won a Theatre World Award and was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play She reprised the role on Broadway in 2022 for which she received a Tony Award nomination She was the first female amputee to be nominated for a Tony Award and the first female amputee to perform on Broadway She cocreated SulliFlinn Productions with fellow Webster Grad Becca Flinn White They produce online comedy content short films and are developing a comedy Legs based on their life experiences They were 2015 fellows at the Producers Guild of America in their Power of Diversity program Sullivan is a fourtime US champion in the 100 m She was among the first bilateral aboveknee amputees to compete in the Paralympics in ambulatory track when she ran in the London 2012 Paralympic Games setting a new American record of 1733 seconds and finishing 6th in the World In November 2015 Sullivan received the Athletes in Excellence Award from The Foundation for Global Sports Development in recognition of her community service efforts and work with youth