PAST Projects
Spring Awakening
BareStage Productions
Directed by Kira Wefers
Directed, choreographed, and intimacy choreographed by Kira Wefers, BareStage’s Spring Awakening ran from November 10th through 19th, 2023.
For more information about BareStage, as well as production images and clips, visit the links!
CABARET
BareStage Productions
CHoreography By Kira Wefers
Directed by Mich Pastor, BareStage’s Cabaret ran from April 14th to April 23rd, 2023.
For more information BareStage, as well as production images and clips, visit the links!
Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
BareStage Productions
Intimacy CHoreography By Kira Wefers
Directed by Karen Canfield, BareStage’s Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 ran from November 8th to November 17th, 2024.
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Much Ado About Nothing
BareStage Productions
Intimacy CHoreography By Kira Wefers
Directed by Riya Borde, BareStage’s Much Ado About Nothing ran from October 6th to October 15th, 2023.
For more information, visit the link below.
GARY: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
Oakland Theater Project
Running from September 8th through October 1st, 2023, Oakland Theater Project’s production of Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus by Taylor Mac is a bloody and campy look into the aftermath of a tragedy, and how hope and glitter can be found in the most unexpected of places.
Read about the West Coast Premiere of Gary, directed by Emilie Whelan and assistant directed by Kira Wefers, below.
Theater of the absurd
Untitled Theater COMPANY
Intimacy Choreography by Kira Wefers
In Untitled Theater Project’s Theater of the Absurd, I served as the intimacy choreographer for The Real Inspector Hound, written by Tom Stoppard, directed by Joshua Gould.
View my full intimacy choreography portfolio!
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
BareStage Productions
Directed by Kira Wefers
Directed by Kira Wefers in her full-length directorial debut, BareStage’s The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee ran from November 10th through 19th of 2022.
For more information about BareStage, as well as production images and clips, visit the links!
Mircalla
BareStage Productions
Intimacy CHoreography By Kira Wefers
Directed by Ella Darlington, BareStage’s Mircalla runs from October 4th to October 13th, 2024.
For more information, visit the link below.
Past SHowcases & Performances
BareTroupe: Haus Party
BareStage Productions
CHoreography By Kira Wefers
In the Spring 2024 Showcase, performed on April 28th and 29th, Kira Wefers choreographed two full company numbers.
View the showcase below!
Into The Woods
BareStage Productions
Directed by Ariel Anderson
In her return to the stage, BareStage’s Into the Woods, featuring Kira Wefers as Cinderella’s Prince, ran from April 12th through 21st, 2024.
For more information about BareStage, visit the link!
Stop Kiss: A Fever Dream
TDPS Advanced Directing Showcase
Directed by Kira Wefers
Featuring actors Sofia Santos and Guillermo Castro, Scene 8 of Diana Son’s Stop Kiss, along with a devised movement and multimedia element, was performed on Thursday, March 21st, 2024.
This piece was created through UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, under the guidance of Timmia Hearn DeRoy, PhD, in her course Advanced Stage Directing as a Social Justice Practice.
Drawn to scale: ICCA 2024
Choreography by Kira Wefers and Ayanna Navarro
At the 2024 ICCA West Quarterfinal on February 17th, Kira Wefers and Ayanna Navarro’s choreography for Drawn to Scale A Cappella won the Outstanding Choreography Award.
View the performance below!
BareTroupe: Blood, Sweat, and FEars
BareStage Productions
CHoreography By Kira Wefers and Jorge Ramos
In BareTroupe’s Fall 2023 Showcase, Blood, Sweat, and Fears, performed on April 30th and May 1st, Kira Wefers and Jorge Ramos choreographed the opening full company number, a number that BareTroupe also performed at BroadwaySF’s Open House at the Orpheum Theater on October 22nd, 2023.
View the performance below!
Creating with Consent
Devised by the Summer 2023 Cohort
At the end of her training program, Creating With Consent: Onstage Intimacies with Cal Summer Arts and Theatrical Intimacy Education, Kira Wefers and her fellow colleagues used techniques of intimacy choreography to create a final showcase piece, performed on July 21st, 2023.
Learn more about Theatrical Intimacy Education, and view Kira Wefers’ intimacy choreography portfolio, at the links below!
Drawn to scale: ICCA 2023
Choreography by Kira Wefers Assisted by Ayanna Navarro
With the assistance of Ayanna Navarro, Kira Wefers choreographed Drawn to Scale A Cappella’s first entry into the International Collegiate Competition of A Cappella since 2020, performed at the Fox Theater on February 18, 2023.
View the performance below!
BarePage: Darker than You’d Expect
Barestage Productions
Directed and Managed by Kira Wefers
In addition to serving as the Technical Rehearsal Manager of BarePage, BareStage’s premier student written, directed, and performed theater troupe, Kira Wefers directed “What We Can’t Know”, written by Diego Rios Brady, performed by Jay Fernando and Flavia Valente on December 8th, 2022.
Melancholia
TDPS Directing Showcase
Adapted and Directed by Kira Wefers
Adapted from Lars Von Trier’s 2011 film Melancholia, this piece delves into the metaphorical world of disconnect in depression, and explores the big, overwhelming, and world-ending, along with the small and individual, as one and the same.
This piece was created through UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, under the guidance of Michael Socrates Moran. Featuring Riya Borde, Ella Darlington, and Leo Kearney, “Melancholia” was performed on December 3rd, 2022.
Disenchanted!
Moorpark COllege
Directed by Ian Bowers
Kira Wefers performed as Belle in Moorpark College’s production of Disenchanted!, which ran from July 25th-27th, 2022.
Watch her performance of the song “Insane” at the link below!
Blithe Spirit
Moorpark College
Directed by John Loprieno
Kira Wefers performed as Ruth in Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit, a part of Moorpark College’s 2022 Summer Season. The show ran from July 21st through 31st.
BarePage: Barepage Live!
Barestage Productions
Directed and Managed by Kira Wefers
Kira Wefers was the founding rehearsal manager of BarePage, UC Berkeley’s premier student written, directed, and performed theater group. She wrote and directed the opening piece, “Soap Opera”, and directed Casey Lei’s “The Forgetting Man”, an abstract drama performed by Eric Miller and Avery Findsen on May 7th, 2022.
For more information about BarePage, visit the link!
American Idiot
BareStage Productions
Directed by Martha Ward
In her first show with BareStage Productions, Kira Wefers played Extraordinary Girl in American Idiot, running from November 12th through 21st, 2021
For more information, visit the link below.
Past Film Work
The Eye of the Beholder
A Film by Kira Wefers
Featuring Sophia Partain and Karina Martinez
An experimental film meant to challenge the general trends of mass media, “The Eye of the Beholder” was made under the tutelage of Lazaro Gonzalez Gonzalez in UC Berkeley’s department of Film and Media.
View this film and others below!
Self TapE
A Film by Kira Wefers
An exploration of personal identity, this portrait film was created under the guidance of Lazaro Gonzalez Gonzalez in his Intermediate Moving Image Production course in UC Berkeley’s department of Film and Media, with the help of production assistants Maddy Jannes and Khia Jefferson.
View this film and others below!
Fortune’s Fool
A Film by Matilda Macon
Intimacy CHoreography by Kira Wefers
A sapphic story about a bounty hunter and a captured princess, Fortune’s Fool by Matilda Macon is the first narrative short I have intimacy choreographed.
More information at the link below!