Kristina Oster

Kristina Oster has worked in the entertainment industry, on stage, backstage and in front and behind the camera for 23 years. The last 14 have been spent mainly in ecommerce, marketing and emarketing. After finishing college at Drake University, (via Duke University, Eugene O'Neill Theatre and Connecticut College) with a BFA, she ventured to Manhattan, becoming a member of the Circle Repertory Company Playwrights Lab, as an actor and director. In New York she also worked with the Mabou Mines Theatrical Company/Ontological-Hysteric Theatre on the ground-breaking, Richard Foreman production, Africanus Instructus, performing in it along with working on the production. She has a dubious honor of performing two Off-Broadway plays at once at Circle Repertory Company in the West Village, "Talley and Son", and the Jean Cocteau Repertory Company in the East Village, "Six Characters in Search of an Author", which she also assistant directed and coached the child in the show. Thankfully the New York Cabbies never sleep. During a Broadway run of "Quiet In The Land" she was also the acting coach for the children in that show. She also did regional theatre around the east starring in a Chorus Line, Little Shop of Horrors and other musicals. Lured to Los Angeles in 1988 to do a play with Christopher Reeve and Christine Lahti she was seduced from Manhattan, and inspired to co-found Left Coast Rep with a dozen other Circle Repertory members, where she produced and directed productions and readings of original plays and was the literary manager for four years. In between time she managed to end up in a couple films, in front of and behind the camera and do voice over work on such prime time shows as "Knots Landing" (OY). The only notable film was "Above the Law" and in that one she ended up mainly on the cutting room floor. The others well... Let's put it this way, she was the victim of a double-beheading in a notoriously bad slasher film/musical where she also did special effects make-up. Leaving all that glamour behind her and working three years at the Artists Agency in the early nineties led her to Cannell Studios where she worked for executive producers and writers on their scripts, contracts and productions eventually working for Stephen J. Cannell as his creative assistant, editing six novels, his prolific output of teleplays and screenplays along with coordinating the production staff on his many television productions. From there she was swiped by the president of the studios to come aboard his online venture, DVDEXPRESS.com to bring her formidable creative, writing, business, computer and marketing skills to bear to ecommerce and emarketing.