Kate St-Pierre

Kate St-Pierre specializes in arts integration and community programming, with over 25 years of teaching and mentoring teachers from pre-K through 12th grade, as well as university undergrad and graduate students.

St-Pierre was recruited by the Nevada Department of Education to align the Nevada Core Arts Theatre Standards with the National Standards and has been a grant advisor, reviewing and adjudicating over 150 grants for the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts ) and WestAF (the NEA’s Western division of States). She has taught at Doral Academy Red Rock 6–12 since it’s opening in 2016 and developed the high school theatre, musical theatre, and film studies curriculums. She incorporates many of the programs and techniques taught at Juilliard, Columbia, and New York University into her curriculum, allowing her students opportunities to apply these tools and create outstanding work. Her favorite high school productions include ""She Kills Monsters,"" ""Mean Girls the Musical,"" and a student-led, two-story building takeover of an immersive ""Macbeth.""

St-Pierre has taught directing for both undergrad and graduate students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and has lectured the University of Iowa’s (UI) Life Design class (developed by Professor David Gould), and the Obermann Scholars at UI. She was the Assistant Director for the Los Angeles Opera’s Education and Outreach program, teaching in the Los Angeles Sheriff Department’s South Central, Watts, and many other schools with challenged populations. She has also taught at Clark County School District’s Arts Integration ConFAB and is a Smith Center Teaching Artist, a Kennedy Center Roster Teaching Artist, a licensed Wolf Trap teacher, and an original Las Vegas Disney Musicals in Schools Teaching Artist. She believes that by centering each individual student’s needs to differentiate curriculum, we can create better engagement, accessibility, and retention, fostering a lifelong love of learning.

An experiential designer, St-Pierre can create curriculum and produce engaging events in almost any space (educational, theatrical, convention/hotel, pop-up/found, etc.). She has created several programs for seniors and people with memory loss and dementia, including work with the Smith Center and their phenomenal education and outreach department, in partnership with the Lou Ruvo Center to create programming for those with memory loss and their families.

St-Pierre was nominated for the Stage Directors and Choreographers Union’s Zelda Fichandler Award and is an Associate Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Union, Roster Artist with the Nevada Arts Council, Roger’s Art Loft Founding Board Member, and StateraArts Ambassador. Nominated in 2004 for a New York Drama Desk Award, she was the original singer for ""Le Reve"" and lead vocal soloist in ""Ka, Cirque du Soleil."" As a soloist, her voice can be heard in numerous scores and soundtracks. She regularly records for legendary epic film and trailer composer, Thomas Bergersen. She also worked with renowned large scale installation artist Ann Hamilton and performed in her “Tower” at the Oliver Ranch with composer Shahrokh Yadegari.

St-Pierre is an alumnus of the prestigious Lincoln Center Theater Directors’ Lab and the Artistic Director of The LAB LV, an award winning experiential, interdisciplinary theatre company in Las Vegas. She was handpicked by Anne Bogart (Columbia University Graduate studies in Directing) to workshop SITI Company’s new translation of Euripides’ Bacchae, which premiered at the Getty Villa, followed by performances at Black Acting Methods Studios (BAM) and Guthrie Theater. She is an experiential designer and director and has devised linear and nonlinear stories for commercial and noncommercial narratives. Her two-story pop-up, immersive show, “Iphigenia 2k16,” was voted Best of Theatre by the LV Weekly. “Funky immersive physical theater that took a Greek classic and made it a spectacle in stairwells, loading docks and found spaces throughout Emergency Arts.” —LV Weekly. In 2019, she worked for Giant Spoon and producers of Sleep No More for their epic Adobe pop-up activation in Las Vegas.

Recent directing works include Pulitzer nominated plays ""The Royale"" by Marco Ramirez and ""Dance Nation"" by Claire Barron; ""She Kills Monsters"" by Qui Nguyen; Anne Carson’s ""Antigonick;"" Schoenberg’s ""Erwartung;"" ""Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity"" by Kristoffer Diaz; and ""The Wolves"" by Sarah DeLappe. Her 2019 devised contemporary rock concert adaptation of Shakespeare’s ""A Midsummer Night’s Dream"" was nominated 11 times and won 9 awards by Broadway World, including Best Director, Best Musical, Best Actor, and Best Ensemble. Over a recent two year span, St-Pierre and her productions were nominated over 19 times and won 12 “Best of” awards.

St-Pierre has worked extensively in motion capture and motion control visual effects for numerous legendary films and series including ""Matrix Reloaded,"" ""Elf,"" and ""Taken."" She also provided art direction and VFX research for the HBO series ""Carnivale."" St-Pierre also has extensive experience in directing, including the bluegrass band Tin Toy Cars’ outlandish and exuberant music video. She recently created and is currently developing a three episodic online streaming series, which is being reviewed by the Sundance Institute.

Specializing in physical/movement theatre and devising, St-Pierre has trained extensively with Anne Bogart (Columbia University) and SITI Company, Ellen Lauren (Juilliard), and Leon Ingulsrud (Viewpoints/Composition, Suzuki). She has also trained extensively with Frantic Assembly (""Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"" National Theatre, ""Grotowski,"" Theatre Complicite, Third Rail Projects ""Then She Fell,"" Lecoq, and BAM).

Her aerial work includes trapeze, flying/static, tissue, cerceau, contortion, horse vaulting, and Wushu with Li Jing and Zengjian Jian.

As a professional singer, St-Pierre loves to teach actors, singers, and directors voice and movement connection and spatial relationships. Her vocal training includes North Indian classical vocal music with Lakshmi Shankar, opera studies with Dr. Kevin St. Clair (University of Southern California) and Joselyn Fleury (Concordia University, Montreal), and classical, balkan, and Tibetan throat chanting with Dennis Parnel.

Through The LAB LV, St-Pierre teaches and brings world renowned artists to Las Vegas to offer unique, affordable, challenging opportunities for professional and emerging artists of all backgrounds including dance, circus, theatre, music, video, and design.
St-Pierre was recruited by the Nevada Department of Education to align the Nevada Core Arts Theatre Standards with the National Standards and has been a grant advisor, reviewing and adjudicating over 150 grants for the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts ) and WestAF (the NEA’s Western division of States). She has taught at Doral Academy Red Rock 6–12 since it’s opening in 2016 and developed the high school theatre, musical theatre, and film studies curriculums. She incorporates many of the programs and techniques taught at Juilliard, Columbia, and New York University into her curriculum, allowing her students opportunities to apply these tools and create outstanding work. Her favorite high school productions include She Kills Monsters, Mean Girls the Musical, and a student-led, two-story building takeover of an immersive Macbeth.

St-Pierre has taught Directing for both undergrad and graduate students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and has lectured the University of Iowa’s (UI) Life Design class (developed by Professor David Gould), and the Obermann Scholars at UI. She was the Assistant Director for the Los Angeles Opera’s Education and Outreach program, teaching in the Los Angeles Sherriff's Department’s South Central, Watts, and many other schools with challenged populations. She has also taught at Clark County School District’s Arts Integration ConFAB and is a Smith Center Teaching Artist, a Kennedy Center Roster Teaching Artist, a licensed Wolf Trap teacher, and an original Las Vegas Disney Musicals in Schools Teaching Artist. She believes that by centering each individual student’s needs to differentiate curriculum, we can create better engagement, accessibility, and retention, fostering a lifelong love of learning.

An experiential designer, St-Pierre can create curriculum and produce engaging events in almost any space (educational, theatrical, convention/hotel, pop-up/found, etc.). She has created several programs for seniors and people with memory loss and dementia, including work with the Smith Center and their phenomenal education and outreach department, in partnerdhip with the Lou Ruvo Center to create programming for those with memory loss and their families.

St-Pierre was nominated for the Stage Directors and Choreographers Union’s Zelda Fichandler Award and is an Associate Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Union, Roster Artist with the Nevada Arts Council, Roger’s Art Loft Founding Board Member, and StateraArts Ambassador. Nominated in 2004 for a New York Drama Desk Award, she was the original singer for ""Le Reve"" and lead vocal soloist in ""Ka, Cirque du Soleil."" As a soloist, her voice can be heard in numerous scores and soundtracks. She regularly records for legendary epic film and trailer composer, Thomas Bergersen. She also worked with renowned large scale installation artist Ann Hamilton and performed in her “Tower” at the Oliver Ranch with composer Shahrokh Yadegari.

St-Pierre is an alumnus of the prestigious Lincoln Center Theater Directors’ Lab and the Artistic Director of The LAB LV, an award winning experiential, interdisciplinary theatre company in Las Vegas. She was handpicked by Anne Bogart (Columbia University Graduate studies in Directing) to workshop SITI Company’s new translation of Euripides’ Bacchae, which premiered at the Getty Villa, followed by performances at Black Acting Methods Studios (BAM) and Guthrie Theater. She is an Experiential Designer and Director and has devised linear and nonlinear stories for commercial and noncommercial narratives. Her two-story pop-up, immersive show, “Iphigenia 2k16,” was voted Best of Theatre by the LV Weekly. “Funky immersive physical theater that took a Greek classic and made it a spectacle in stairwells, loading docks and found spaces throughout Emergency Arts.” —LV Weekly. In 2019, she worked for Giant Spoon and producers of Sleep No More for their epic Adobe pop-up activation in Las Vegas.

Recent directing works include Pulitzer nominated plays The Royale by Marco Ramirez and Dance Nation by Claire Barron; She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen; Anne Carson’s Antigonick; Schoenberg’s Erwartung; Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz; and The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe. Her 2019 devised contemporary rock concert adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was nominated 11 times and won 9 awards by Broadway World, including Best Director, Best Musical, Best Actor, and Best Ensemble. Over a recent two year span, St-Pierre and her productions were nominated over 19 times and won 12 Best of awards.

St-Pierre has worked extensively in motion capture and motion control visual effects for numerous legendary films and series including Matrix Reloaded, Elf, and Taken. She also provided art direction and VFX research for the HBO series Carnivale. St-Pierre also has extensive experience in directing, including the bluegrass band Tin Toy Cars’ outlandish and exuberant music video. She recently created and is currently developing a three episodic online streaming series, which is being reviewed by the Sundance Institute.

Specializing in physical/movement theatre and devising, St-Pierre has trained extensively with Anne Bogart (Columbia University) and SITI Company, Ellen Lauren (Juilliard), and Leon Ingulsrud  (Viewpoints/Composition, Suzuki). She has also trained extensively with Frantic Assembly (Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time National Theatre, Grotowski, Theatre Complicite, Third Rail Projects ""Then She Fell,"" Lecoq, and BAM).

Her aerial work includes trapeze, flying/static, tissue, cerceau, contortion, horse vaulting, and Wushu with Li Jing and Zengjian Jian.

As a professional singer, St-Pierre loves to teach actors, singers, and directors voice and movement connection and spatial relationships. Her vocal training includes North Indian classical vocal music with Lakshmi Shankar, opera studies with Dr. Kevin St. Clair (University of Southern California) and Joselyn Fleury (Concordia University, Montreal), and classical, balkan, and Tibetan throat chanting with Dennis Parnel.

Through The LAB LV, St-Pierre teaches and brings world renowned artists to Las Vegas to offer unique, affordable, challenging opportunities for professional and emerging artists of all backgrounds including dance, circus, theatre, music, video, and design.