Kristine McIntyre is a director of great imagination, incisiveness, and skill.  She is recognized for her ability to translate concepts and make them readable to her audiences.  Since her directorial debut in 1994, she has staged numerous opera, theater and dance works, and she has assisted in the direction of scores of productions principally in the United States. Ms. McIntyre has worked with The Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Portland Opera, Dallas Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Wolf Trap Opera, Arizona Opera, Kentucky Opera, Madison Opera, Skylight Opera Theatre, Pittsburgh Opera Center, Long Beach Opera, and Sugar Creek Symphony & Song. Directorial assignments and debuts in the next few seasons include projects with Opera Boston, Tulsa Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Austin Lyric Opera and Kentucky Opera.

Since her debut, Ms. McIntyre has directed many new productions including the world premiere of John Brown and Jake Heggie's acclaimed opera The End of the Affair for Lyric Opera of Kansas City. Additional new productions comprise Verdi's first comedy, Un Giorno di Regno for Wolf Trap Opera, an American Hansel and Gretel for Skylight Opera Theater, Iolanthe, The Mikado and Patience for Mock's Crest Productions, Dialogues of the Carmelites for Berkeley Opera, Nicolai's The Merry Wives of Windsor, also for Mock Crest Productions, La Cenerentola for Sugar Creek Symphony & Song, Il Ritorno D'Ulisse in Patria and La Clemenza di Tito for Pittsburgh Opera Center, Viva La Mamma for Tacoma Opera and Turn of the Screw for Lyric Opera of Kansas City. Recent projects for Ms. McIntyre include Lucia di Lammermoor and La Traviata for Portland Opera, Beatrice et Bénèdict for Tacoma Opera, Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria for Portland Opera Studio, Ruddigore for Mock's Crest Productions, and the highly acclaimed new production of John Dove's Flight for Pittsburgh Opera Center. Recent directorial debuts include Arizona Opera in Lucia di Lammermoor, Kentucky Opera in Werther, and Madison Opera with Cosi fan Tutte, followed by a return for several projects to The Metropolitan Opera. UPCOMING projects in the 2009-2010 Season comprise a directorial debut in a new production of Tancredi with the EWA PODLEŚ for Opera Boston, a new production of A Little Night Music for Mock's Crest, and productions of Rigoletto for Tulsa Opera and Le Nozze di Figaro for Pittsburgh Opera.

Ms. McIntyre's first operatic assignments came from San Francisco Opera where she assisted in the direction of numerous productions for the company. Projects include Turandot (Mansouri), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Copley), and Der Fliegende Holländer (Taylor), Götterdämmerung (Serban), Siegfried (Serban), Carmen (Bernhard), Un ballo in Maschera (Terleckyj), The Ballad of Baby Doe (Colin Graham), Don Giovanni (Mansouri), Manon (Copley), Semele (Copley), and Guillaume Tell (McClintock) among others. Following her work in San Francisco, Ms. McIntyre joined Portland Opera, Opera Pacific and Long Beach Opera where she continued to develop her directorial skills directing and assisting in a broad range of works. Projects included La Belle Hélène (Fortune), Candide (Mattaliano), The Cunning Little Vixen (Warner) Giulio Cesare (Cazan), Regina (Masella), and Il turco in Italia (Alden), among others. In 2000, Ms. McIntyre joined Dallas Opera as Associate Director to John Copley for his production of La Traviata. Also in 2000, Ms. McIntyre joined the staff of The Metropolitan Opera where she has since regularly returned to direct revivals and assist in various new productions including Les Troyens (Zambello), Luisa Miller (Moshinsky), Salome (Flimm), Un ballo in Maschera (Faggioni/Feldman), Doktor Faust (Mussbach), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Cox/Pappas).

Ms. McIntyre is founder and artistic director of Everyman, a San Francisco based Theater Company for which she has directed and designed critically acclaimed productions of works by Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Howard Brenton. As an educator, Kristine McIntyre has adapted and directed several productions for Portland Opera's touring company Portland Opera To-Go including 50-minute versions of The Elixir of Love, The Magic Flute, La Boheme and La Cenerentola, as well as an in-school Opera Improv program. She has also developed various Opera Outreach programs including "Operalympics," which she co-created for Utah Opera, "In the Spotlight" which she created for San Francisco Opera Center and A Day in the Life for the Studio Artists of the Portland Opera. She has staged the Apprentice Scenes at Santa Fe Opera and the was director for Pittsburgh Opera Center's Interactive Opera, has served as drama coach and conducted acting and master classes for Portland Opera Studio and The Rising Stars Singers Audition Workshop, and she worked as assistant director for the Merola Opera Program.

Ms. McIntyre received a graduate degree in Theatre Direction (Master of Arts - with Distinction) from the University Of Hull, England.  She graduated Summa cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from Georgetown University in Washington, DC.