Recent & Upcoming Happenings:

  • [BLEEP]: A Play About Censorsh** coming to the Brooklyn Public Library 4/7

  • Directed and devised Smoke and Mirrors at CAT Youth Theatre

  • Teaching and directing a year-long puppetry devising course with CO/LAB

  • Devising a sensory friendly performance at a middle school on the UES for the D75 students in their building

  • Generating high school curriculum for Lincoln Center’s Floyd Collins

  • Teaching a 10-week residency culminating in a performance of Romeo and Juliet for Lincoln Center Theatre Education

Photo by Stewart Vill

The arts are an incredible tool for strengthening our empathic and collaborative capabilities and for expressing and exploring the world in which we live, while simultaneously imagining the world that we want to inhabit. Kristian facilitates theatrical workshops and residencies throughout NYC schools and is a teaching artist and director with Lincoln Center, The New Victory Theater, Creative Arts Team’s Youth Theatre, and CO/LAB.

Kristian’s teaching experience includes curriculum and activity generation for workshops and theatrical pieces all over NYC, including sensory friendly activities at The Big Umbrella Festival and for lobby engagement at The New Victory. Kristian has devised and developed original work with young folks and has taught scene study and devising courses at Boston University’s Summer Theatre Institute.

He has designed art-making experiences for queer-identifying elders (The Queer Pop-Up Book @ Queens Center for Gay Seniors), and developed and toured a Theatre in Education piece that was devised with Sabrina Alamo and Jeanna Phillips called “[BLEEP]: A Play About Censorsh**”. The piece engages high school students with the topic of censorship through theatrical vignettes and opportunities for role-play and civic debate and will be coming to The Brooklyn Public Library this Spring.

Kristian has an MA in Applied Theatre from CUNY.