Director Kirsten Z Cairns is equally at home creating productions in traditional performance spaces, and exploring site-specific projects in a variety of venues. She is Artistic Director and Founder of Enigma Chamber Opera, whose debut production was hailed in the Boston Globe as ‘an auspicious arrival in the Boston arts landscape’; their work has since been described by reviewers as ‘expertly rendered’, ‘fabulously done’ and ‘a transcendent experience’.

Kirsten has staged works throughout the US and in the UK; her work has been described in the press as ‘so good you want to see it again, right away’ and ‘astounding, phenomenal, superb’. Formerly Director of Opera Studies at The Boston Conservatory, Kirsten also loves teaching – she specialises in coaching acting and interpretation of text. A graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the New England Conservatory, Kirsten also finds time do her own performance work as a singer and actor.