Kari Hayter is a professional director and educator based in Southern California. She was nominated for the 28th Annual LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award Best Direction of a Musical for both Parade at the Chance Theatre and Urinetown, The Musical for Coeurage Theatre Company. She was also nominated for the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for theatrical excellence in 2016 for Direction of Urinetown the Musical.  Current / Future projects: The Last Five Years at The Actors Company - The Other Space, West Side Story at Pepper Tree Park in Tustin, The Vandal at Chance Theatre, Once at Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts for 3-D Theatricals, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day​ at South Coast Repertory,  She is a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.

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