Kyle Hatley

Artistic Director

Kyle is currently the Associate Artistic Director of Kansas City Repertory Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri. At Kansas City Rep, he has directed The Borderland by Jim Grimsley, Broke-ology by Nathan Jackson, the 30 Year Anniversary Production of A Christmas Carol, and Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker. He was also the assistant director for Eric Rosen on Clay and A Christmas Story, Moises Kaufman on Into The Woods and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, an Epilogue, Lou Bellamy on Radio Golf, David Cromer on The Glass Menagerie, and Gary Griffin on Saved. Also in Kansas City, he directed Hamlet for TwoThirds Theatre, How Does Your Garden Grow for the Equity Showcase, and Ben Franklin’s Apprentice at The Coterie Theatre. For Kansas City Fringe Festival, he wrote and directed Watering The Grave, a blues musical retelling of The Oresteia; The Death of Cupid, a folk musical retelling of Lysistrata; and Head, which was based on the Bible story about Herod, Herodias, Salome, and John the Baptist. He is currently working on two new plays, a new musical called People Fall and a psychological thriller called Raise My Hand.

Other directing credits include And Baby Makes Seven, Third, No Exit, Oleanna, Seascape, Oliver!, Death and the Maiden, The Laramie Project, It’s a Wonderful Life, All in the Timing, Titus Andronicus, and Romeo and Juliet, among others. His work as a writer and director for Chatterbox so far are The Dead Girl, which won the Silver Ogle Award for excellence in Horror & Fantasy for audio theatre in 2008; Six, produced both in Memphis and in Kansas City, where it was featured as part of the 2008 Fringe Festival; Surfacing, which was in collaboration with the MFA Sound Design and Acting Program at University of Missouri – Kansas City; and an adult adaptation of Pinocchio, which features some of Kansas City’s finest actors and marks the first project he and chief collaborator Eryn Preston worked on together. In 2009 he was named Best Director in Kansas City by The Pitch.

Kyle received his degree in Theatre from Rhodes College. He has a cat named Pizza, a Jeep named Janis, and an addiction to Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Ani DiFranco, and pretty much any music that can live unplugged on the street or in an alley. If he’s not working on theatre related things he’s most likely watching movies or cooking.

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