Kristan Sauter

Kristan Sauter (Tessie) Kristan Sauter was featured as Nellie Oakley in the Los Angeles and San Francisco Civic Light Opera production of Annie Get Your Gun that starred Debbie Reynolds. An accomplished ballet dancer, she has appeared with Russian ballet artists, the Panovs, in the San Diego Ballet presentation of The Nutcracker. Her TV credits include a Lipton Soup commercial and appearances on Juvenile Jury, and The Dating Game. In local theatre productions she has portrayed Baby June in Gypsy and Marta in The Sound of Music, along with being a featured dancer in Brigadoon.