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 operas and theater works, as well as several ballets, 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, Pittsburgh Opera Center, Long Beach Opera, Sugar Creek Symphony & Songand Arizona Opera. Directorial assignments and debuts in the season include projects with Arizona Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, The Metropolitan Opera, Pittsburgh Opera Center, Wolf Trap Opera Center,Opera Boston, Madison Opera and Santa Fe Opera.

Since her debut, Ms. McIntyre's has directed many new productions including Jake Heggie's acclaimed opera The End of the Affair for Lyric Opera of Kansas City. Additional new productions comprise Lucia di Lammermoor and La Traviata for Portland Opera, 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 Beatrice et Bénèdict for Tacoma Opera, Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria for Portland Opera Studio, Hansel and Gretel for Skylight Opera, The Pirates of Penzance for Mock's Crest Productions, the highly acclaimed new production of John Dove's Flight for Pittsburgh Opera Center, a directorial debut with Arizona Opera in Lucia di Lammermoor, and a return for several projects to The Metropolitan Opera. UPCOMING projects in the 2008-2009 Season include the much anticipated newly commissioned opera John Brown for the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, a debut with Kentucky Opera directing Werther, a directorial debut in a new production of Tancredi with the EWA PODLES´ for Opera Boston, a new production for Wolf Trap Opera of Verdi's first comedy, Un giorno di regno, and Così fan tutte for Madison 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 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.