Kristi Schultz (she/her)  is a hyphenate Theatremaker and Teaching Artist using interdisciplinary movement-driven performance practices to reinvent classics, adapt literature, and devise original work.  Kristi is on the Theatre Faculty at Marlborough School in Los Angeles and Artistic Director of the Marlborough Ensemble Theatre.   Kristi developed the Musical Theater and Dance Program at New Roads School and implemented a Workshop Lab for Performance Activism. During her time as an educator, she has Directed and Choreographed over 50  productions with students ages 11 to 18 years of age.  She has been a guest Director and Facilitator at the Arkansas Arts Center Children's Theatre, My Hero Project, Bluepalm Arts, Rembiko Edinburgh Project, and CalArts Interim Program. She has received 4 Jerry Herman Award nominations for Best Staging & Choreography, receiving an award for ‘In The Heights’.  

 

She was Producing Artistic Director of the award-winning LA company, Zoo District, helming their residence at [Inside] the Ford as part of the Ensemble Theatre Collective. There, she directed the critically acclaimed production of Ionesco’s THE SUBMISSION and THE FUTURE IS IN EGGS. She has spent much of her career dedicated to championing new voices by curating programs for original work in SHOT IN THE DARK and JOUR DE BOSSE CABARET at Inside the Ford, SEEING RED at the Moss Theatre, and Son of Semele’s QUICK CREATION FESTIVAL. She was commissioned by Padua Playwrights to direct the World Premiere of Murray Mednick's play, DESTRUCTION OF THE 4th WORLD. She produced and performed in the Premiere of THE DEFENDERS by Brian Frette’ in Los Angeles and San Francisco, which garnered 5 Garland Award Honorable Mentions. Kristi has been active in the Physical Theatre community in Los Angeles, working frequently with The Grand Guignolers.

 

Other work in New York includes Third Rail Dance in SPUN, Director at New York’s Theatre Studio, Inc. and Choreographer for the Yale Cabaret’s ROCKY HORROR. She spent several years as a musical theatre performer and dance captain, making special appearances as a singer/entertainer at a variety of New York and Los Angeles corporate events, industrials, and fundraisers, including The Drama League’s annual Broadway Bash. 

 

Dedicated to lifelong learning and ongoing inquiry into pedagogy and performance practice, Krist is a  proud alumna of Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama in addition to intensive studies with the British American Drama Academy at Oxford, SITI Company, NYC Movement Theatre Studio, Frantic Assembly Train & Create, The Clown School Los Angeles, The Broadway Teacher’s Workshop, and the Director’s Lab West 2009.

 

As CoVid struck in 2020, she was directing the premiere of FLESH by Ash Nichols at INKFest at the Broadwater. Now, she’s happy to witness the evolution and reinvention of theatre as we know it, finishing her own solo performance piece, OPERATION DOLLHOUSE.