DAY NEWSROOM: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Kristina Dorsey
Features Editor
k.dorsey@theday.com
Phone: (860) 701-4318
Kristina Dorsey of East Lyme, The Day’s features editor, has always shunned the spotlight, preferring to enjoy artistic performances as part of the audience or backstage rather than be in the middle of it all.
It’s a part that suits her well, given her role of writing about and editing stories revolving around the local arts scene. It’s a scene she has covered for about two decades of her three-decade career at The Day.
“I love watching them,” she said. “I love the artistry. It’s just incredible.”
A former piano player and ballet dancer, Kristina loves interviewing interesting people who are excited to bring their new creations to life. Along the way, she has met some of the leading performers of our time, including actress and singer Julie Andrews, twice, at Goodspeed Opera House.
“She was just what you would hope she would be,” Kristina said.
Kristina grew up locally and graduated from East Lyme High School in 1982 and Brown University in 1986 with a degree in English. She later completed a master’s degree at Wesleyan University.
After brief stints in the publications department at the Mystic Seaport and as a reporter for the Home News in Montville, Kristina started at The Day as an obituary clerk. She then worked as a reporter covering several towns before becoming an arts writer and then arts editor.
“I love it,” she said. “I look forward to work every day.”
In her spare time, she is a competitive rower locally in the masters division, having participated previously in both high school and college.
Kristina’s favorite part of work is interviewing people, but she also spends time deciding on which stories to cover, editing the copy of two arts writers and overseeing content for the Night & Day section on Thursdays.
“You’re always looking for something different, something quirky, something newsworthy,” she said.
RECENT ARTICLES
By Kristina Dorsey
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Hallmark movie shoots in southeastern Connecticut
April 12, 2021
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Customers are flocking to the just-opened Mexican restaurant La Llorona in Niantic
April 10, 2021
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East Lyme’s Dave Goetsch: ‘3rd Rock.’ ‘Big Bang.’ Now, it’s ‘United States of Al.’
March 25, 2021
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New Connecticut law prohibits discrimination based on natural hairstyles
March 20, 2021
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Long-time director retiring from Slater Museum in Norwich
March 19, 2021
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Old Lyme’s Eric Parker returns to Channel 3 to host new Sunday morning show, “CT'21”
March 14, 2021
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Music to your ears: What The Day's readers have been listening to over the past year
March 11, 2021
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Old Lyme resident Brian Keith Stephens’ paintings are both playful and profound
March 4, 2021
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La Belle Aurore in Niantic offers themed Date Night Kit takeout meals
March 2, 2021
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February 25, 2021
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