Kay Matschullat originates, produces and directs performances around the globe. She has directed premieres of plays by Nobel prize-winning Caribbean playwright Derek Walcott, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Ariel Dorfman and Playwright President Vaclav Havel. Other credits include Threepenny Opera, Carson McCullers Talks About Love, (nominated for a Drama Desk Award) off-Broadway with composer Duncan Sheik, Echoes of A Thousand Hills with Masharika Theater in Rwanda, Pantomime, Dimetos, and Widows at Williamstown Theater, All’s Well The Ends Well, Love’s Labours Lost, and Skin of Our Teeth.    

Since founding MAXlive, she has produced the multi-venue biennial festivals MAXlive 2019:  A Space Festival, the inaugural MAXlive festival in San Francisco creating collaborations between scientists and performers, MAXlive 2021, The Neuroverse pushing the limits of intelligence and investigating applications of AI in performance, and MAXlive 2023 Where is My Body – dance music and immersive performance exploring the changing nature of embodiment.  Partners include Carnegie Hall, The Exploratorium, MASS MoCA, National Sawdust, New York Live Arts, The Museum of Science (Boston), California Academy of Science, and Highland Center for the Arts. 

She has held artistic residencies at Dartmouth College, Harvard College, Calarts, and SCAD.  She served as a full time faculty member at Tisch School of the Arts for over two decades, taught at Princeton University Program in Theater and Dance and is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard College.  

Grants include an NEA Fellowship, A TCG Fellowship, and a Drama League residency. She founded Scriptopia, the first online collaborative tool for play development. She looks forward to seeing you at MAXlive.