Kristine Niven - Artistic Co-Director
Kristine Niven is an actor/improvisor, writer and producer living in New York City. For twenty years, she was the artistic/producing director of Artistic New Directions, a non-profit theatre company, where she established a development program for new works. She now serves as artistic co-director. For Public Access TV, she produced and co-wrote a season of sketch comedy starring the team of Briggs and Large. She founded and continues to direct the Annual Summer Improv Intensive, which is now in its 16th year the Master Improv Retreat entering its fourth year and the Playwright’s Retreat with Jeffrey Sweet. From 1997-2001 she produced AND’s Musical Theatre Retreat. Kristine recently completed a term as the administrative director of the Second City Training Center in New York, for which she continues to serve as a consultant. In election year 2004, she produced and performed in a 12-week run of political, satirical improv headlined by Second City alum Monteith and Rand, Garry Goodrow and Audrie Neenan. She has served as Line Producer at The Workhouse Theatre (NYC) and Blueberry Pond Ensemble (Croton, NY), as Associate Producer of the Peekaboo Festival of New Music & Theatre (NYC), and as Company Manager and General Manager of several off-broadway productions. She spent two years as Development Director for New York’s Manhattan Punchline Theatre and an additional two years as Managing Director of Spectrum Stage at The Chelsea Playhouse.