ColumbiaMagazine.com
Printed from:

Welcome to Columbia Magazine  
 



































 
Kit Sanderson is new director of Kentucky Repertory Theatre

New director's tenure at Horse Cave, KY theatre begins March 1, 2011
Click on headline for story with photo(s)

By Robert Stone, special to ColumbiaMagazine

Christopher Carter Sanderson, Kit, is the new Executive Director at Kentucky Repertory Theatre, Horse Cave, KY, effective March 1, 2011. He has a Master of Fine Arts in directing from the Yale School of Drama, 2005. His company of 24 years in New York City, Gorilla Rep, is a prolific and well-loved part of that city serving the mission of populist theatre.



Kit was in Horse Cave last weekend for interviews with the KRT board of directors, actors who have appeared at KRT, and others closely involved with the arts in the area. He flew in from Oslo, Norway, where he is a Fulbright grantee for spring 2010-2011. There he directed Chekov's "Uncle Vanya" and in Vigeland Sculpture Park Shakespeare's "A Midsummer's Night's Dream."

Sanderson was born in St. Louis, MO, but has been a New Yorker since 1986. His family is from Cumberland, VA, where he often lived growing up. He directs theater, produces theater, dramaturgs theater, has taught theater at Princeton and Yale, writes musicals, and composes musicals. He is an SDC (Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers) member, ASCAP member, Dramatists Guild member, published author, proud Navy vet, amateur semiotician, sometime visual artist, miserable chess player, shotgun enthusiast, happy cook, and avid reader

.Mr. Sanderson's wife, Frances You Sanderson, is an actress who has appeared on stage and screen, most notably in the film "Double Happiness" with Sandra Oh and in the 2008 production of "Hamlet" for which the New York Times richly applauded her performance as Ophelia, calling it "heartbreaking." She is a Princeton graduate.

Kentucky Repertory Theatre at Horse Cave was formed in 1976 as Horse Cave Theatre. Its first play was George Bernard Shaw's "Candida." Almost every year since there has been a Shakespeare play. And there have been new plays which grew out of the Kentucky Voices program, a project to develop Kentucky playwrights and plays about Kentucky. Tom Chaney of The Bookstore on Water Street, just across the way from the theatre, well-known to CM readers as of author of "Of Writers And Their Books" was one of the founders.


This story was posted on 2011-02-25 12:20:43
Printable: this page is now automatically formatted for printing.
Have comments or corrections for this story? Use our contact form and let us know.



Kit Sanderson: New director of Kentucky Repertory Theatre



2011-02-25 .
Christopher Carter Sanderson, Kit, is the new Executive Director at Kentucky Repertory Theatre effective March 1, 2011. He has a Master of Fine Arts in directing from the Yale School of Drama. He was born in St. Louis, MO, but has been a New Yorker since 1986. His family is from Cumberland, Virginia, where he often lived growing up. Kentucky Repertory Theatre, is located at *118 East Main ST, Horse Cave, KY.
*118 is the address of the Education Building/Offices of KRT. The "back" of the actual theater is also on East Main Street (#107) but the entrance is from Maple Avenue, off East Main and only a few hundred feet from the intersection of 31-W and Kentucky 218

Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.



 

































 
 
Quick Links to Popular Features


Looking for a story or picture?
Try our Photo Archive or our Stories Archive for all the information that's appeared on ColumbiaMagazine.com.

 

Contact us: Columbia Magazine and columbiamagazine.com are published by Linda Waggener and Pen Waggener, PO Box 906, Columbia, KY 42728.
Phone: 270.403.0017


Please use our contact page, or send questions about technical issues with this site to webmaster@columbiamagazine.com. All logos and trademarks used on this site are property of their respective owners. All comments remain the property and responsibility of their posters, all articles and photos remain the property of their creators, and all the rest is copyright 1995-Present by Columbia Magazine. Privacy policy: use of this site requires no sharing of information. Voluntarily shared information may be published and made available to the public on this site and/or stored electronically. Anonymous submissions will be subject to additional verification. Cookies are not required to use our site. However, if you have cookies enabled in your web browser, some of our advertisers may use cookies for interest-based advertising across multiple domains. For more information about third-party advertising, visit the NAI web privacy site.