ABOUT US
KID SISTER Theatre Collaborative
founded July 2022
KID SISTER, co-founded by Camden Barrett and Nikolas Krieger, is a non-profit theatre collaborative based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Barrett and Krieger met in rehearsals for Krieger’s final directing project at the University of Utah, with the guidance of the mystical Alexandra Harbold, and their collaboration continued through a summer of international study and vacationing to devise and facilitate a theatre-making workshop in July 2022, which developed into a seven-rehearsal process to produce a new work, called Kite Flyer. Niko and Camden went on to organize a second workshop in October 2022 to gather passionate students and theatre makers in the community to adapt seven of Krieger’s poems into an evening-length work, Everything is About Something, in December 2022 which gathered more bodies than they had seats available. The KID SISTER process is ever-evolving: based on improvisation, experimentation, and what director Anne Bogart calls “exquisite pressure.” KID SISTER is a laboratory space and a classroom for theatre makers to satiate their hunger to play and make theatre that encourages us to dream. From rehearsal models tailored by Bogart, Bertold Brecht, Frantic Assembly, Theatre Complicité, and Chelsea Pace, Barrett and Krieger have ensured a non-hierarchical dynamic between themselves as co-directors of KID SISTER and their wondrous collective of fellow theatre-makers and artists.
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Niko Krieger
Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director, (he/him/his)
Niko is a celebrated local artist and photographer in the Salt Lake Valley and an alumna of the Theatre Studies Program at the University of Utah. He is currently studying under the direction of Irina Brown at Rose Bruford College (London, UK) to receive his MFA in Contemporary Directing Practice.
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Camden Barrett
Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director, (they/them/theirs)
Camden recently graduated from the University of Utah with a BFA in Theatre as part of the Actor Training Program (ATP). Recent credits: RADIANT VERMIN (Director) at Salt Lake Acting Company as the inaugural production of SLAC’s Making Space for Artists Program with Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory. Most recent research projects include KING LEAR, as a collective ATP senior project (Director, and Co-Collaborator with Multi-Disciplinary Design Alumna Angela Rauf), and BECAUSE WE CAN'T SEW, a Design + Theatre independent study of Paula Vogel’s THE BALTIMORE WALTZ with Angela Rauf (co-mentored by assistant professors Alexandra Harbold and Steven Chodoriwsky). Camden is currently studying at the Royal Central Speech and Drama as part of the MFA Advanced Theatre Practice course in London. For more information visit: www.camdenbarrett.com.
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN will forever be their most cherished film.
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Board of Directors
Niko Krieger (co-chair), Camden Barrett (co-chair and treasurer), Riley Barrett (secretary)
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