Kerstin Vaughn

Kerstin Vaughn is a theatre director, artist, and educator originally from Norton, Ohio. She has worked as a performer, stage manager, teacher, and director in several states all across the country.

Kerstin holds an MFA in Performance and Pedagogy from Texas Tech University. She focused her studies on inclusive pedagogy, somatics, voice and speech, and directing. She has experience in new play development, having worked on original productions of five new plays and several festival pieces. Kerstin is inspired by using movement as a form of storytelling. She believes theatre is most engaging and impactful when we tap into expressive movement and vocal energy to build something bigger than life and otherworldly. To this end, Kerstin has studied intimacy choreography, yoga, Japanese Butoh dance, and Laban-Bartenieff Movement Analysis.

Recently, Kerstin was a guest lecturer and director at Texas A&M Commerce where she taught intermediate acting and directed Julius Caesar. Other recent directing credits include Hairspray (Moonlight Musicals), Anansi the Spider (Lexington Children’s Theatre), and The Box of Stories (National High School Institute at Northwestern University).