Kirsten Brandt is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice embraces inquiries into gender, social and environmental justice, politics, and the intersection of theatre and technology. An award-winning playwright and director, she served for six seasons as Artistic Director of the experimental theatre company Sledgehammer Theatre where she directed over a dozen plays and musicals and wrote BERZERKERGANG, THE FRANKENSTEIN PROJECT and NU. She was the Associate Artistic Director of San Jose Repertory Theatre, where she directed DR. FAUSTUS, NEXT FALL, THE BIG MEAL, LEGACY OF LIGHT, RABBIT HOLE and GROUNDSWELL, among others. As a director, Ms. Brandt’s work has been seen at The Old Globe, TheatreWorks, La Jolla Playhouse, Utah Shakespeare Festival, African-American Shakespeare Company, San...
Kirsten Brandt is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice embraces inquiries into gender, social and environmental justice, politics, and the intersection of theatre and technology. An award-winning playwright and director, she served for six seasons as Artistic Director of the experimental theatre company Sledgehammer Theatre where she directed over a dozen plays and musicals and wrote BERZERKERGANG, THE FRANKENSTEIN PROJECT and NU. She was the Associate Artistic Director of San Jose Repertory Theatre, where she directed DR. FAUSTUS, NEXT FALL, THE BIG MEAL, LEGACY OF LIGHT, RABBIT HOLE and GROUNDSWELL, among others. As a director, Ms. Brandt’s work has been seen at The Old Globe, TheatreWorks, La Jolla Playhouse, Utah Shakespeare Festival, African-American Shakespeare Company, San Diego Repertory, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, North Coast Repertory, Marin Theatre Company, City Lights Theatre, Jewel Theatre, and Arizona Theatre Company. She is the co-adapter of Henrik Ibsen’s A DOLL’S HOUSE (with A.C. Harvey), which had its world premiere at the Old Globe Theatre. Her other plays include CODED, THE MECHANIC'S DAUGHTER, THE WAVES, an adaptation of WUTHERING HEIGHTS as well as the telematic, multi-site play THE THINNING VEIL and the site-specific THE OPEN DOOR..
She is Chair of the Theatre Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the Executive Director of the Nevada Conservatory Theatre. She received her BA in Theatre from UC San Diego where she took part in the Education Abroad Program in Birmingham, England. Her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College focuses on gender in performance, performative technologies and environmental justice. She is a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, The Dramatists Guild of America, and the National Theatre Conference.