Kristin McCarthy Parker is a New York-based director of stage and film whose work has been produced across the US, in the UK and Australia. They are the director of the Off-Broadway hit Puffs: Or, Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic and its live capture (available on Amazon and iTunes). With their company, Recent Cutbacks, they’ve directed Hold On To Your Butts, Fly You Fools, KEVIN!!!!!, Next Day Thrones, and the company's Audible Original, Master Lecture Series: History of the Third Robot War. They have directed for Edinburgh Fringe, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theater, Broken Box Mime Theater, All For One, PEN America's Prison Writing Program, Ma-Yi, Columbia University, University of Florida, and many others.