Kristen Mae Lee

Kristen Mae Lee was born in Groton/New London, CT, to a single mother, Carol, in high school. She married a Navy man who became Kristen's dad, Gary, and their nuclear family, including her middle sister, Jenn, lived for several of their youngest years in Minnesota. After their divorce, the girls moved back to Connecticut, and then in fourth grade they moved into a new ranch house in Hanover, Connecticut. Kristen was a free-spirited handful of a child with a big confident personality and a heavy interest in learning about everything, which is still true of her. She read the dictionary and every book in the house, including the entire World Book Encyclopedia collection, and took a particular interest in her mom's self-help books. She tested 3 grades higher, but she talked about becoming a Model, Fashion Designer, and professional Commissioned Artist in NYC. In seventh grade, she read the bible cover to cover and became a Writer/Teacher, teaching her first class and giving one-on-one sessions to the students who wanted them. Feeling divinely inspired, she started the concept for a personal improvement book with a Personal Dossier TM invention. She always wanted to change the world by getting people to think outside themselves and see things differently - for fashion to be for real women, for example. She has always had protective instincts and cannot tolerate anyone being abused. She has devoted constructive time working within each of her areas of interest. She never acted until college when, as President of the Student Government, she went into a play rehearsal for "The Good Woman of Szechuan," to see how things were going. When asked, she read for the part of Old Woman, got it, and was told by that Hartford Director that he would have given her a bigger part, if there were any left. During the table reading, he was very surprised she had no acting experience and had the others pay attention to how she read, and he called attention to her acting talent during a rehearsal of the court scene a couple weeks later as well. The book from seventh grade became workshops which are now also a series of books called "How To Love Yourself, Others, and Life Itself 24/7/365," that Kristen has been teaching since 2000 while she was going to college in Tempe, Arizona. She has had several published articles in national magazines, in the healthcare and automotive industries, and she devotes a lot of time to charity efforts and as an Activist through a blog she has contributed to almost daily since 2007. Kristen has also produced a web talk show called "Connecting With Krista LIVE!", which started in 2017 teaching personal improvement while bringing people together. Her personality really shines during the broadcasts and she has a bit of a following. After Kristen graduated at the top of her college class in Tempe, Arizona with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual Communications and a minor in Business/Marketing, she moved back to Connecticut working in the Marketing field as a Graphic Designer and Web Site Developer, later adding search engine optimization by getting websites listed on page one of Google to her impressive list of skills. In 2016, she created some home demo reels cold-reading free script scenes while home sick one day. Kristen's emotionally heart-wrenching portrayal of a mother crying over her child who committed suicide, in her first recorded attempts at acting, led to a couple acting jobs, including the independent film "Silent Times" (2018) by Christopher Annino.