The Light in the Piazza

ADAM KARSTEN**

Director / Executive Artistic Director

In addition to being Coachella Valley Repertory’s new executive artistic director, Adam Karsten is an award-winning director for stage and screen. He has earned a reputation for the creation of stylistic works and defined concepts. While directing and producing works for the Emmy Award-winning performing arts series, “Live From Lincoln Center” and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Karsten’s projects, programs, films and documentaries have aired nationally and internationally. He has directed musicals, plays and other theatrical works Off-Broadway and regionally as well as touring productions. He has also conducted Broadway workshops. Karsten was the artistic director for the film and stage companies A2K Productions and A2K Theatricals in New York City. He was the artistic director and co-founder of Manhattan’s Conflict of Interest Theatre Company in downtown New York. Karsten was also managing artistic director of Weathervane Playhouse, the oldest professional stock theatre in Ohio.

**A Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.

STEPHEN HULSEY

Music Direction

A recent transplant to the desert, Stephen has served as music director/conductor/pianist for regional productions of Sweeney Todd, Ragtime, Titanic, Into The Woods, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love & Murder, Assassins, A Little Night Music, Chess, Tommy, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Avenue Q, A Chorus Line, Les Miserables, The Producers, Forever Plaid, Songs For A New World, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Urinetown, Carrie, Beauty and the Beast, Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Toxic Avenger, Evil Dead: The Musical, My Fair Lady, The Music Man, The Sound of Music, The Secret Garden and Rent, to name a few. Recent CV Rep credits include music director/pianist for Next to Normal, Love is Dead, assistant to the music director/keys for Cabaret and pianist for Julia & Janna Cardia’s cabaret Twinspiration.

KAREN SIEBER**

Choreography

Choreography credits include the world premiere of Holmes, The Legend (Karlin Theater, Prague); The Guggenheim Works & Process (NYC); The Broadway Dance Lab; The New York Gala for legendary Choreographer Luigi; and The Quiet Clock (Off Broadway).  Karen was Associate Choreographer on the Broadway Workshops of the Liberace Musical, All That Glitters; Zarra-Unmasked at Last starring Chita Rivera; and Broadway’s Easter Bonnet Competition.  She has worked alongside Broadway choreographer Dan Siretta on the world premiere of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane starring Millicent Martin; Very Good Eddie (Goodspeed Musicals); Some Like It Hot starring Tony Curtis; and the Hallmark film A Christmas Carol starring Kelsey Grammer.  She was the associate director/ choreographer on Into The Woods (TUTS); choreographed the films ResistDance; Still Here and Losing Face; as well as musicals such as Cabaret, Spamalot, Les Miserables, Guys and Dolls, Legally Blonde and others, regionally.  Karen has choreographed many commercials and has taught at Marymount Manhattan College, Ithaca College, and AMDA. Her dance career spanned musicals such as Cats; Disney’s Beauty and The Beast; Jerry Herman’s Mack & Mabel; Grease; Singin’ in The Rain; to dancing in Hollywood films and the renowned Radio City Christmas Spectacular.

**A Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.