Brian Kite

Brian Kite is an award-winning theater director, a professor of theater, and the interim dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Previously, he was the Producing Artistic Director of La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts. He staged the first production of Miss Saigon to ever play in China and also directed Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers, the first U.S. production of a play at Beijing’s National Center for the Performing Arts. He recently directed the new musical, Irena, in Poznań, Poland. The piece will premiere in Warsaw in March 2023.