Brian Kite is an award-winning theater director, Professor of Directing, and Dean and Vice Provost of Graduate Education at UCLA. He previously served as Dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and Chair of its Department of Theater. His directing work has been seen across the United States and internationally, including productions of American Idiot, Billy Elliot, Les Misérables, the national tour of Judgment at Nuremberg, Little Shop of Horrors, and Dinner with Friends. He received the Los Angeles Ovation Award for Best Direction of a Musical for Spring Awakening and the Joel Hirschhorn Award from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle.

Internationally, he directed the first U.S. play performed at China’s National Center for the Performing Arts, the Chinese premiere of Miss Saigon, and the Polish premieres of the musical Irena. He also staged Cabaret in Bermuda under the patronage of the Queen’s Governor. A Visiting Professor at the Shanghai Theatre Academy and former Producing Artistic Director of La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, Brian has spent plenty of time on the other side of the footlights — and is delighted (and obviously terrified) to be back onstage for White Rabbit Red Rabbit.