About Kindra Steenerson
Founder and Executive Director, SAGE Acts
Kindra Steenerson is originally from Southern California, but currently resides in Charlotte, NC. She earned her MFA in Performance/Directing from Utah State University, where her training was largely informed by Stanislavsky, Adler, and Bogart’s Viewpoints. As a professional she has extensively studied Meisner, physical approaches to acting (Laban, Viewpoints/Suzuki, and Rasaboxes), and has trained with both Catherine Fitzmaurice and Anne Bogart/SITI Company in NY. Locally, Kindra appeared as The Angel in Angels in America at Carolina Actors Studio Theatre in Charlotte, and most recently as Jennifer Jones in Lee Street’s production of The Realistic Joneses. Other favorite roles include Hecuba in The Trojan Women, Lady Caroline in Enchanted April, Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, and The Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods. She has directed upwards of fifty shows, and counts Talley's Folly, On the Verge, Spring Awakening, The Laramie Project, Southern Girls, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Hairspray, and The Cake among her recent favorites.
Kindra has spent the last twenty years in academia, teaching in Theatre and Gender and Women's Studies programs in Arizona, Illinois, and North Carolina. She earned tenure and promotion at Coker College in South Carolina, where she was an Associate Professor of Theatre.
Kindra’s research interests are using physical theatre to heal trauma, Meisner, feminist theory and pedagogy, and how to use theatre techniques to engage in community dialogue around difficult topics. Kindra has presented papers and workshops at state, regional, national, and international conferences. In addition to her work as Executive director of SAGE Acts, she is a part-time theatre instructor, freelance actor and director, and works as a consultant to higher ed theatre programs and theatre companies.
