Kristian Espiritu

Kristian Espiritu (they/she/siya) is a queer Filipinx multi-disciplinary storyteller. Born in Queens, NY and growing up in Los Angeles and Brooklyn, they are interested in queer and BIPOC stories that explore joy across generations, serve as community care, and challenge societal norms. She also dreams of starring as a queer space traveler in a Sci-Fi or dystopian musical. Just sayin’.

Most recently, Kristian has appeared throughout several Boston theaters including American Repertory Theater (The Odyssey by Kate Hamill, Romeo & Juliet), Lyric Stage Company (Something Rotten, Hello, Dolly, Assassins, The Drowsy Chaperone), The Hungtington Theatre (The Heart Sellers), and Wheelock Family Theatre (A Year With Frog And Toad, Mr. Popper’s Penguins). Additional credits include School of Rock (1st Nat’l Tour), Here Lies Love (The Public), Learning How To Read By Moonlight (Leviathan Lab), Interstate, A New Musical (East West Players), The Rise and Fall of Holly Fudge (Merrimack Repertory Theater), Once on This Island (Pioneer Theater Co), Little Shop of Horrors (Music Theatre of Connecticut). TV: Younger, Ray Donovan, Hunters, and HBO Max’s Love Life with Anna Kendrick. Check out the NEWS tab for current appearances!

Kristian is also a certified Consent Forward Artist, passionate about creating safe, consent-focused spaces for the theater and beyond. Intimacy Direction includes Appropriate (Hovey Players), Steel Pier and A Little Night Music (Sullivan Rep), Nüwa in Fairyland (Chuang Stage), and Chagrin Valley (Burlington Players), Tufts University, Footlight Club.

What else? Kristian is a recurring Broadway Guest Artist on Disney Cruise Line, an avid pole dancer and a fiber artist. Their small business, How Bout Knot, was launched in 2020 in response to the shutdown during the pandemic and the social injustices against Black, indigenous and POC bodies.

In all things, they are a student, a dreamer, and a creator.

Kristian is currently Boston based, and can be a NY and LA local hire.

Anything else you want to know, follow @kriscendo on IG.