Kristin Hanggi (born: Murrieta Valley, California[1]) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter; and theater director best known for the 2009 Broadway musical Rock of Ages. The jukebox musical received five Tony Award nominations, including a nomination for Best Direction of a Musical. She has also directed two national tours, and West End, Australia, Toronto, and Las Vegas productions.
In 2012 she was living in Manhattan, New York City [2]
CareerEdit
TheaterEdit
Hanggi's stage productions include the Los Angeles and New York productions of Bare: A Pop Opera. Bare and Hanggi won the Ovation Award for Best Musical, LA Weekly Award for Best Musical, and Robby Award for Best Director.[citation needed] In January 2018, it was announced that she would adapt the musical into a feature film.[3][4][5]
Other works include And the Curtain Rises at the Signature Theatre; Catch The Fish, winner of the New York's Fringe Festival; Twelfth Premise, a Los Angeles Times Critic's Pick; the Los Angeles premiere of Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi, winner of the Ticketholder Award for Best Production and Best Director, and Robby Award for Best Director of a Play; Crane, Mississippi, a Los Angeles Times and Backstage West Critic's Pick.[citation needed]
Hanggi worked with Amy Heckerling to develop Heckerling's 1995 film Clueless into a stage musical which ran Off Broadway from November 2018 to January 2019, fulfilling its original 3-month booking.[7]
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