Kyle Haden
Associate Professor | Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES
Kyle Haden is an artistic leader, director, educator, and Equity actor.
Biography
In his leadership role, Kyle represents the School of Drama on college and university committees, as well as a variety of external functions, and is involved in forming and maintaining partnerships, both locally and nationally. He is the Leadership point of contact for the Season Steering Committee, responsible for negotiating rights for performance with licensing companies, as well as casting all School of Drama productions. In addition to his teaching duties in the Acting/Music Theater program, Kyle is also the Artistic Producer of ColLABo, a production development incubator.
Originally from Pittsburgh, Kyle Haden is an artistic leader, director, educator, and Equity actor, as well as the artistic producer of ColLABo, a production development incubator. He is an Artistic Associate and the former artistic director of the Ashland New Plays Festival in Oregon. During his six-year tenure as artistic director, over a dozen new plays from ANPF went on to have premieres nationwide. Kyle also spearheaded their 2016 Women’s Invitational; one of the winning plays, Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2018. Kyle is also a Senior Coordinating Producer with Black Lives, Black Words International Project, as well as a member of the 2021 cohort of artEquity’s BIPOC Leadership Circle.
As a director, Kyle has helmed various world premieres of productions across the country, including Parental Advisory: a breakbeat play (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), The Devil is a Lie (Quantum Theater), and the award-winning Hazardous Materials (Creede Repertory Theatre). Other shows he has directed include Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (City Theatre Company), The Royale (Creede Repertory Theatre), Waiting For Lefty (Quintessence Theatre); The Chief (Pittsburgh Public Theater), The Realness and A Brief History of America (Hangar Theatre Company), Hamlet and The Winter’s Tale (Island Shakespeare Festival) and The Tens (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville). Kyle was named a 2018 Drama League Directing Fellow, and is a member of the Drama League Directors Council.
Kyle has taught at various theater companies, including several years serving as the program manager at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Summer Seminar for High School Juniors. He previously held tenure-track appointments at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts and Southern Oregon University.
Areas of Expertise (5)
Program Management
Dramatic Arts
Stage Direction
Play Production and Development
Casting
Media Appearances (3)
CMU students, faculty and alumni help City Theatre celebrate 'Christmas at Pemberley'
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette online
2023-11-29
Not every city has the resources necessary for artists to enjoy a thriving career in their hometowns. Luckily for Kyle Haden, his hometown happens to be Pittsburgh. “As a kid who grew up here, it’s just cool to know that you don’t have to go far to have these possibilities,” said Haden, a Bethel Park native.
Inda Craig-Galván & Kyle Haden in conversation about BERTH BREACH/BREECH BIRTH presented by ANPF
Ashland New Plays Festival online
2021-04-19
Grab your favorite potato chips and get in on the conversation with playwright Inda Craig-Galván and director Kyle Haden as they talk about Inda's new play BERTH BREACH/BREECH BIRTH, which ANPF is presenting on April 24 and 25. We learn about the poetic influence that inspired the play, the African-American farming community in Illinois that sparked the roots of the play's setting, what they're both looking forward to next week as all the artists come together to start the workshop and rehearsal process, and so much more. These two bring the laughter and the serious in equal measure, taking listeners on a journey of inspiration and insight.
Pandemics and Playgoers: the Future of Theater in a Post-Pandemic World | Kyle Haden
TEDxCMU online
2020-10-05
Theater as we know it has all but disappeared with the current global pandemic, calling into question both the necessity of theater and also how we define the very thing. Kyle Haden breaks down what is and isn't theater and also how important it is to keep theater alive: to continue telling important stories. Kyle Haden is a director, educator, and equity actor. He is in his 6th season as the artistic director of the Ashland New Plays festival in Oregon, where over a dozen new plays have premiered globally. He has also helmed various productions and performed at regional theaters nationwide. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Acting at Carnegie Mellon University in his hometown of Pittsburgh, PA. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.
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