IlluminArt Productions empowers students to use theater and artistic expression to illuminate critical social issues, creating conversations for positive change.

​Kristi Sorkin: Stage Manager & Teaching Artist (Choreography, Musical Theatre & Arts Empowerment)

Kristi Sorkin (she/her) is starting her 10th season with IlluminArt Productions as the new Touring Company Stage Manager after spending 9 fabulous seasons as a touring company actor. She has a BFA in Acting from Wayne State University in Detroit. Kristi teaches musical theater, dance, and mural making, and choreographs main-stage musicals with and for young audiences with IlluminArt Productions. In the last few years, she has directed “Tortoise vs. Hare 2: This Time it’s Personal”, choreographed “Seussical”, “Pinkalicious”, and is now choreographing “The Lightning Thief”. Kristi also enjoys the community theater scene here on Staten Island and was most recently featured as Penelope Pennywise in Urinetown and Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, both with Ghostlight Players.