Chris Kaminstein - Co-Artistic Director
Shannon Flaherty
Co-Artistic Director
Christopher Kaminstein is a writer, director, improviser, teaching artist, and co-Artistic Director of Goat in the Road Productions (GRP). He is known for his innovative theater directing, a commitment to an ensemble-based creative process, and using historical moments to analyze current social realities. Chris' most recent writing and co-directing credits for GRP include The Family Line (2022), The Uninvited (2020), Roleplay (2019), KindHumanKind in Concert (2019), The Stranger Disease (2018), Foreign to Myself (2017), and Numb (2014). He won a 2023 Big Easy Theater Award for ‘Best Director’ with co-Director Richon May Wallace (The Family Line), and a 2018 ‘Best Director’ award with co-Director Kiyoko McCrae (The Stranger Diseas). Kaminstein was featured in an American Theatre article about GRP’s immersive history-based projects (March 2020). Chris is an experienced teaching artist and co-founder of the company's flagship educational program, Play/Write, which brings student plays to life with professional actors. Chris lives with his wife, Laura, and daughter, Lia, in New Orleans, LA.