Kristine has been working as a puppeteer and visual artist since 2011, with a focus on work that is created for live performance, often in site-specific, public spaces. She has worked with Volcano Theatre, Shadowland Theatre, Clay and Paper Theatre, Jumblies Theatre and Birdbone Theatre as a designer, writer, performer, and builder. She has apprenticed under and learned from marionette master Mirek Trejtnar in Prague, traditional shadow puppeteer Rakmachandran Tholpawkuthu in India, Puppetmongers Theatre and Clay and Paper Theatre in Toronto, and Peter Schumann of Bread and Puppet Theatre in Vermont. Kristine has developed a specialty in designing and building large-scale puppets for parades and pageants, having been a designer and builder for Clay and Paper Theatre since 2014. In 2018, Kristine's focus shifted to paper-cut art and shadow puppetry. Her shadow puppet design can be seen in recent works by Volcano Theatre, and have also been exhibited in gallery spaces in Brooklyn, NY and Tilburg, NL.
Kristine loves to collaborate on projects big and small. Current projects underway include co-directing and designing a multi-language (Greek, English, French) shadow puppet play based on the novel 'Bernard Pepperlin' by Cara Hoffman, design for Volcano Theatre's "Ingoma! A Revolution in Rhythm", and a multidisciplinary collaboration with sound designer and composer Heidi Chan.
