Kirsten works regionally as a Director and Teaching Artist. She learned to teach at the Tony award-winning Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, MN. She has directed for The Theatre Lab (Newsies, Matilda, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It), Imagination Stage (Unlabeled, The Pencil is Mightier, O Wonder, Aladdin), Montgomery College (The BURN), Metropolitan School of the Arts (Alice in Wonderland, Wishful Thinking, The Odyssey, Peter Pan, The Tempest); and the Hub Theatre (Emerging Writer’s Festival). In addition to Theatre Lab, Kirsten serves on the faculties of Ford’s Theatre, Imagination Stage, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, and Metropolitan School of the Arts. She has been invited to present about educational theatre by the Kennedy Center, Signature Theatre, DC Arts and Humanities Council, DCJCC, Montgomery County Public Schools, and Fairfax County Public Schools.

Kirsten received her M.A. in Theatre from the University of Houston, School of Theatre.