PAST Projects
Stop Kiss
TDPS Honors Workshop
Directed Kira Wefers
Directed and intimacy choreographed by Kira Wefers as the culmination of their Honors Project in the University of California, Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, Stop Kiss ran from April 16th through 18th, 2025.
Spring Awakening
BareStage Productions
Directed by Kira Wefers
Directed, choreographed, and intimacy choreographed by Kira Wefers, BareStage Productions’ Spring Awakening ran from November 10th through 19th, 2023.
CABARET
BareStage Productions
CHoreography By Kira Wefers
Choreographed by Kira Wefers and directed by Mich Pastor, BareStage Productions’ Cabaret ran from April 14th to April 23rd, 2023.
Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
BareStage Productions
Intimacy CHoreography By Kira Wefers
Intimacy choreographed by Kira Wefers and directed by Karen Canfield, BareStage’s Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 ran from November 8th to November 17th, 2024.
Macbeth
Barestage Productions
Intimacy Choreography by Kira Wefers
Intimacy choreographed by Kira Wefers and directed by Leo Kearney, BareStage’s Macbeth ran from March 7th to March 16th, 2025.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
BareStage Productions
Directed by Kira Wefers
Directed by Kira Wefers, BareStage Productions’ The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee ran from November 10th through 19th of 2022.
Footloose
Choreography and Intimacy CHoreography By Kira Wefers
BareStage Productions
Choreographed by Kira Wefers, Keila Cooke, and Lydia Watson, intimacy choreographed by Kira Wefers, and directed by Madeline Jannes, BareStage Productions’ Footloose ran from April 18th through 27th, 2024.
GARY: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
Oakland Theater Project
Running from September 8th through October 1st, 2023, Oakland Theater Project’s production of Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus by Taylor Mac was a bloody and campy look into the aftermath of a tragedy, and how hope (and glitter) can be found in the most unexpected of places.
Read about the West Coast Premiere of Gary, directed by Emilie Whelan and assistant directed by Kira Wefers, below.
Much Ado About Nothing
BareStage Productions
Intimacy CHoreography By Kira Wefers
Intimacy choreographed by Kira Wefers and directed by Riya Borde, BareStage Productions’ Much Ado About Nothing ran from October 6th to October 15th, 2023.
Arsenic and Old Lace
Untitled Theater Company
Intimacy Choreography by Kira Wefers
Untitled Theater Company’s production of the theatrical classic Arsenic and Old Lace, intimacy choreographed by Kira Wefers and directed by Riya Borde, ran from April 9th through 13th, 2025.
DEBUT of the absurd
Untitled Theater COMPANY
Intimacy Choreography by Kira Wefers
In Untitled Theater Company’s Debut of the Absurd, which ran from December 6th through 7th, 2024, I served as the intimacy choreographer for The Real Inspector Hound, directed by Joshua Gould.
Mircalla
BareStage Productions
Intimacy CHoreography By Kira Wefers
Directed by Ella Darlington and intimacy choreographed by Kira Wefers, BareStage Productions’ Mircalla, a modern take on the classic Carmilla, ran from October 4th to October 13th, 2024.
Past SHowcases & Performances
BareTroupe: You Are What You Wear
BareStage Productions
CHoreography & Music Management By Kira Wefers
In BareTroupe’s Spring 2025 Showcase, performed on May 4th and 5th, Kira Wefers choreographed three showcase pieces, one each in collaboration with Ayani Dorsey, Dale Tanner, and Lydia Watson, in addition to arranging one song for a cappella performance.
Drawn to scale: ICCA West Semifinal 2025
Choreography by Kira Wefers and Ayanna Navarro
Assisted by Madison McLaughlin, Mary Julie Ordinario, and Moore Theobald
At the 2025 ICCA West Semifinal on March 22, 2025, Drawn to Scale A Cappella competed for the very first time on an ICCA Semifinal stage.
Drawn to scale: ICCA West QuarterFinal 2025
Choreography by Kira Wefers and Ayanna Navarro
At the 2025 ICCA West Quarterfinal on February 8th, 2025, Kira Wefers and Ayanna Navarro’s choreography for Drawn to Scale A Cappella won the Outstanding Choreography Award. Drawn to Scale also placed second overall, and will be advancing to the next stage of the competition.
BareTroupe: The Room Where It Happens
BareStage Productions
CHoreography & Music Management By Kira Wefers
In BareTroupe’s Fall 2024 Showcase, “The Room Where It Happens”, performed on December 8th and 9th, Kira Wefers choreographed four showcase pieces, one each in collaboration with Ayani Dorsey, Dale Tanner, and Aleshani Altan, and one as sole choreographer.
BarePage Fall 24 Showcase
As part of my duties as Resident Intimacy Choreographer with BareStage Productions, I assisted the writing and performance troupe BarePage as their intimacy choreographer for three of their showcase pieces.
Intimacy Choreography by Kira Wefers
BareTroupe: Haus Party
BareStage Productions
CHoreography By Kira Wefers
In the Spring 2024 Showcase, performed on April 28th and 29th, Kira Wefers choreographed two full company numbers.
Into The Woods
BareStage Productions
Directed by Ariel Anderson
In her return to the stage, BareStage’s Into the Woods, featuring Kira Wefers as Cinderella’s Prince, ran from April 12th through 21st, 2024.
Stop Kiss: A Fever Dream
TDPS Advanced Directing Showcase
Directed by Kira Wefers
Featuring actors Sofia Santos and Guillermo Castro, Scene 8 of Diana Son’s Stop Kiss, along with a devised movement and multimedia element, was performed on Thursday, March 21st, 2024.
This piece was created through UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, under the guidance of Timmia Hearn DeRoy, PhD, in her course Advanced Stage Directing as a Social Justice Practice.
Drawn to scale: ICCA 2024
Choreography by Kira Wefers and Ayanna Navarro
At the 2024 ICCA West Quarterfinal on February 17th, 2024, Kira Wefers and Ayanna Navarro’s choreography for Drawn to Scale A Cappella won the Outstanding Choreography Award.
BareTroupe: Blood, Sweat, and FEars
BareStage Productions
CHoreography By Kira Wefers and Jorge Ramos
In BareTroupe’s Fall 2023 Showcase, Blood, Sweat, and Fears, performed on December 3rd and 4th, Kira Wefers co-choreographed a number that BareTroupe also performed at BroadwaySF’s Open House at the Orpheum Theater on October 22nd, 2023.
Creating with Consent
Devised by the Summer 2023 Cohort
At the end of her training program, Creating With Consent: Onstage Intimacies with Cal Summer Arts and Theatrical Intimacy Education, Kira Wefers and her fellow colleagues used techniques of intimacy choreography to create a final showcase piece, performed on July 21st, 2023.
Learn more about Theatrical Intimacy Education, and view Kira Wefers’ intimacy choreography portfolio, at the links below!
Drawn to scale: ICCA 2023
Choreography by Kira Wefers Assisted by Ayanna Navarro
With the assistance of Ayanna Navarro, Kira Wefers choreographed Drawn to Scale A Cappella’s first entry into the International Collegiate Competition of A Cappella since 2020, performed at the Fox Theater on February 18, 2023.
BarePage: Darker than You’d Expect
Barestage Productions
Directed and Managed by Kira Wefers
In addition to serving as the Technical Rehearsal Manager of BarePage, BareStage’s premier student written, directed, and performed theater troupe, Kira Wefers directed “What We Can’t Know”, written by Diego Rios Brady, performed by Jay Fernando and Flavia Valente on December 8th, 2022.
Melancholia
TDPS Directing Showcase
Adapted and Directed by Kira Wefers
Adapted from Lars Von Trier’s 2011 film Melancholia, this piece delves into the metaphorical world of disconnect in depression, and explores the big, overwhelming, and world-ending, along with the small and individual, as one and the same.
This piece was created through UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, under the guidance of Michael Socrates Moran. Featuring Riya Borde, Ella Darlington, and Leo Kearney, “Melancholia” was performed on December 3rd, 2022.
Disenchanted!
Moorpark COllege
Directed by Ian Bowers
Kira Wefers performed as Belle in Moorpark College’s production of Disenchanted!, which ran from July 25th-27th, 2022.
Watch her performance of the song “Insane” at the link below!
Blithe Spirit
Moorpark College
Directed by John Loprieno
Kira Wefers performed as Ruth in Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit, a part of Moorpark College’s 2022 Summer Season. The show ran from July 21st through 31st.
BarePage: Barepage Live!
Barestage Productions
Kira Wefers was the founding rehearsal manager of BarePage, UC Berkeley’s premier student written, directed, and performed theater group. She wrote and directed the opening piece, “Soap Opera”, and directed Casey Lei’s “The Forgetting Man”, an abstract drama performed by Eric Miller and Avery Findsen on May 7th, 2022.
Directed and Managed by Kira Wefers
American Idiot
BareStage Productions
Directed by Martha Ward
In her first show with BareStage Productions, Kira Wefers played Extraordinary Girl in American Idiot, running from November 12th through 21st, 2021.
Past Film Work
The Eye of the Beholder
Featuring Sophia Partain and Karina Martinez
A Film by Kira Wefers
An experimental film meant to challenge the general trends of mass media, “The Eye of the Beholder” was made under the tutelage of Lazaro Gonzalez Gonzalez in UC Berkeley’s department of Film and Media.
Self TapE
A Film by Kira Wefers
An exploration of personal identity, this portrait film was created under the guidance of Lazaro Gonzalez Gonzalez in his Intermediate Moving Image Production course in UC Berkeley’s department of Film and Media, with the help of production assistants Maddy Jannes and Khia Jefferson.
Fortune’s Fool
Short Film
Intimacy CHoreography by Kira Wefers
A sapphic story about a bounty hunter and a captured princess, Fortune’s Fool by Matilda Macon was intimacy choreographed by Kira Wefers.