Celia Krefter

is a genderfluid director, choreographer, lighting designer, writer and musician who makes live music for dancing, dancing for theatre, and theatre for living.

Celia’s work is a Fibonacci spiral of geometric movement puzzles and clown face-ography, with an aesthetic equally influenced by Nintendo DS-era Pokémon games and Madonna music videos, grounded in ecodramaturgies and a feral hope for a better world.

Celia’s original devised dance-theatre works and performance experiments have premiered at The Brick Theater’s Brick Aux, Movement Research, the Collapsable Hole, The Tank, and the Movement Lab @ Barnard College. She was the 2023-24 Creative Research Fellow at the Movement Lab, and a finalist for the 2025 Exponential Fellowship. As a director and choreographer, Celia’s work spans everything from big gay musicals, to blackbox two-handers, to textless performance art. She designs lights for theatre and dance, and has collaborated with artists including Object Collection, Experiments In Opera, and Radiohole. She plays accordion as one half of Outdoor Cats, with Pimprenelle Noël on viola. Celia is from Hamburg, Germany, and Cape Cod, MA.

Photo by Joe Navas / Organic Photography