New York University

Kristin Horton is a director primarily interested in developing new plays that engage cross-cultural dialogue as well as reinventing the classics for the contemporary stage. In addition to serving as Artistic Director of the Gallatin Arts Festival, she also teaches courses in directing and Shakespeare as well as an interdisciplinary seminar on performing objects. Professor Horton has recently directed new work at the Lark Play Development Center, New Dramatists, the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, Commonweal Theatre, and Riverside Theatre. Her new play collaborations have also appeared in festivals including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and National Black Theatre Festival. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts/Theater Communications Group Career Development Program, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Sundance Theater Lab, where she assisted Lee Breuer on Mabou Mines Dollhouse, his acclaimed deconstruction of Ibsen's A Doll's House. She is presently Artistic Associate at the Lark, where she recently directed as part of the U.S./Mexico Exchange, Playwright's Week, and Barebones Series. Professor Horton began her career as a member of the Living Stage Theatre Company, the groundbreaking social change theatre of Arena Stage, where she created performances for a diverse audience including incarcerated men and women. While in Washington, D.C., she also produced education programs for the Kennedy Center and served as Artistic Director of Full Contact, whose company-created piece based on the narratives of Kosovar and Serbian refugees premiered at the Studio Theater.