Kirsten Vangsness is best known for playing tech analyst Penelope Garcia on Criminal Minds: Evolution streaming now on Paramount +. Vangsness has been named as "one of TV's best scene stealers" by Entertainment Weekly and can also be seen as Bigelow McFigglehorn on Disney's Wizards Beyond Waverly Place which just premiered its second season. In 2020 Kirsten wrote, starred, and directed the animated short, Curtains, which can be found on Vimeo for free, no password needed. She is Executive Producer and star of the truly hilarious film noir spoof Kill Me Deadly (which you can watch on Tubi) and the creator and host of Bits!, a monthly art salon in the heart of Hollywood.

Kirsten been seen onstage this year Off Broadway in the rock musical Exorsistic, in the London premiere of Nimrod and at Los Angeles LGBT Center premiering her latest one person show, OUTDATED. She really loves theatre and will be bringing OUTDATED to the San Francisco Sketch Fest in 2026. Kirsten’s solo play Mess went to Edinburgh Fringe and was produced by Assembly Rooms along with her feminist, space romp musical Cleo Theo and Wu.

Kirsten has been published in the anthology Women of Letters, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, and celebrated author Roxane Gay chose Kirsten as a "Feminist as Fuck" writer for the 2024 Vulture Fest.. She is the recipient of the Open Fist Excellence in the Arts Award, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Natalie Schafer Award, the HRC Visibility Award , she has a monkey enclosure named after her at the Wildlife Learning Center and she's in love with a Canadian guitarist.