Kirsten Brandt

Kirsten Brandt is an award-winning playwright, director, and producer. She served for six seasons as Artistic Director of Sledgehammer Theatre where she directed over a dozen plays and wrote Berzerkergäng, The Frankenstein Project, and NU. She was Associate Artistic Director of San Jose Repertory Theatre, where she directed over half a dozen plays, and co-wrote the musical The Snow Queen. As a director, her work has been seen at The Old Globe, TheatreWorks, La Jolla Playhouse, Utah Shakespeare, Marin Theatre Company, San Diego Repertory, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, North Coast Repertory, and Arizona Theatre Company. She is the co-adapter of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. 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 an Assistant Professor at San Jose State University. www.kirstenbrandt.com