Kristen Lowman is a professional actress and began her career in John Houseman's The Acting Company. She’s worked in regional theatres: La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Rep (9 plays), the Old Globe, Pasadena Playhouse, Barter Theatre, Cleveland Play House, GeVa Theatre, National Tour, u/s and performed on Broadway, EST, and many more.

Herplays have had a life in Planet Connections Theatre Festival, Newbury Theatre Festival, readings at EST, West Bank Cafe, Guild Hall, East Hampton; Matrix Theatre, LA. She has been a teacher with the East Los Angeles Classic Theatre, using Daniel Judah Sklar's method, and she is a teacher with YAWP through Stony Brook.

Her fiction has been published in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, The Evergreen (Guest Editor, Lucy Ellmann), The Bangalore Review, and was recently notified by The Venus Theatre that her monologue "It's Big and Red" was selected to be part of an anthology of women's monologues, published by Palmetto Press.