Artist Bio

Kristin Marting is a director and choreographer of hybrid work based in NYC. Over the last 20 years, she has constructed 26 works for the stage, including 11 original hybrid works, 8 adaptations of novels & short stories and 7 classic plays.  She works in a collaborative, process-driven way to fuse different disciplines into a cohesive whole.

She is currently developing a tour for LUSH VALLEY, a live art political work which premiered in September 2011. Other recent projects include ORPHEUS, a collaborative alt-musical; James Scruggs’s solo eight channel video work DISPOSABLE MEN and his recent hybrid play (RUS)H. She also directed SOUNDING and DEAD TECH (collaborative works adapted from Ibsen), both of which received prestigious MAP Fund awards. Prior works have toured around the US. She has also collaborated on several large-scale political action art events, including The Line in 2004.

For the last 20 years, she has been developing a unique hybrid directorial/choreographic form that features a “gestural vocabulary” used both as an emotional signifier and as a choreographic element. This vocabulary, though specific to each project, is in a state of constant development with an ever-growing set of permanent gestures being added to the repertoire.

She is a co-founder and the Artistic Director of HERE, where she cultivates artists and programs all events for two performance spaces–including 17 OBIE-award winners—for an annual audience of 30,000. She regularly serves on grant panels for NEA, NYSCA, DCA and TCG, among others. She was recently named a nytheatre.com Person of the Year for outstanding contribution and honored with a BAX10 Award for Arts Managers. Previously, Marting co-founded and served as co-artistic director of Tiny Mythic Theatre Company for nine years.  She served as Robert Wilson’s assistant for HAMLETMACHINE and SALOME.  She graduated from NYU with honors in 1988.  She lectures at NYU, Harvard, Columbia, and Williams College among others.