A picture of Castor Rosencrantz Kent. Castor wears a green shirt that says "THE FUTURE IS FEMALE" and is holding two bouquets of sunflowers, dahlias, and other flowers. Castor has curly brown hair, glasses, and two small silver nose rings.

Castor Rosencrantz Kent is an Athens, Ohio-based director and multidisciplinary theatre artist. Castor’s specialty is working with actors to help them feel physically connected to their characters and to themselves, inspiring a grounded and embodied performance by practicing body awareness, honesty and vulnerability, and active listening.

With a focus on the director-actor relationship, beautiful stage imagery, and consent-based practices, Castor enjoys working as a collaborator with other artists to tell stories from the quietly intimate to the laugh-out-loud. Castor is inspired by clowning, Sanford Meisner’s On Acting, The Viewpoints Book by Anne Bogart and Tina Landau, and Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud.

Favorite credits include directing and intimacy choreographing Peter and the Starcatcher and Constellations, directing in the 14/48 Outdoors festival, producing the Town Crier Speaks festival three years in a row, and set designing for Quake.

  • Castor is a scholar as well as an artist, graduating from the University of Puget Sound with a triple major in Classical Studies, Religious Studies, and Theatre Arts. Castor is currently pursuing an MFA in Directing at Ohio University.

  • Awards and Affiliations

    IATSE Local 15 Union Member (2019-present)

    Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) Member (2019-present)

    Theta Alpha Kappa: The National Honor Society for Religious Studies and Theology Member (2020-present)

    Sound Theatre Company Production Manager (2022-2024)

    Washington Ensemble Theatre Ensemble Member (2022-2023)

    Fred S. Wyatt Scholarship Recipient (2019-2020)

    Bare Bones Theatre Collective President (2018-2020)

  • Published Works

    “May the Force Be With You…And Also With You: An Examination of Religion In and the Cultural Impact of Star Wars” (2020) Published in Relics, Remnants, and Religion: An Undergraduate Journal in Religious Studies Vol. 5: Iss. 1, Article 5

    “The Temperance Movement: Feminism, Nativism, Religious Identity, and Race” (2019) Published in Relics, Remnants, and Religion: An Undergraduate Journal in Religious Studies Vol. 4: Iss. 1, Article 5