Who We Are

KO Theater Works, inc. was made to:

  • foster creativity & innovation in the theater by providing alternative production structures for new work
  • encourage and support innovative collaborations within and across disciplines
  • develop  international and intercultural collaborations
  • establish a training & research program for theater artists wishing to create new work collaboratively

Artistic Director Bio

Sabrina Hamilton

co-founded and is the Artistic Director of the Ko Festival of Performance in Amherst, MA. For many years she worked with the New York theatre company Mabou Mines as Lighting Designer, Production Manager, Stage Manager, Performer, and Assistant Director. Other credits include work at the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Goodman Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum and 6 years as Route Lighting Designer for New York’s Village Halloween Parade under the direction of Ralph Lee. International lighting credits include work in Bologna, Florence, Milan, London, Grenada, Geneva, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Amsterdam, Brussels, Cardiff, Edinburgh, at the Bristol Old Vic, the Theatre Academy in Tampere, Finland, and at the International Theatre Festival in Havana, Cuba. She recently toured to Hong Kong with the Quest production ALICE that appeared at the 2010 Ko Festival and is frequently on the road with Sandglass Theater.

Sabrina’s directing work, primarily original pieces, has been seen in New York, Berlin and throughout New England. She directed CRAVINGS: Songs of Hunger and Satisfaction, from the 2008 Ko Festival that went on to a three-week, sold-out run at the Central Square Theatre in Cambridge, MA, where it garnered a  nomination for an IRNE Award.  It continues to tour. This season she is directing Laurie McCants, winner of this year’s presteigious Fox Fellowship in her first solo piece, INDUSTRIOUS ANGELS.

Hamilton has served on the Editorial Board of Theatre Topics. She is on the Lighting Commission of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT), for whom she serves as head of their Portfolio Review program and as the International Liaison. Hamilton is the USITT representative to the Lighting Design Working Group of OISTAT, the international parent body of USITT. In addition, Hamilton has served on a N.E.H. panel, the “New Forms” panel for Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers panel. She holds a B.A. from Hampshire College and double M.F.A. in Directing and Lighting Design from the UMASS/Amherst. She has been on the faculties of Hampshire, Williams and Trinity Colleges, and Long Island University, and served as the Program Director of the M.F.A. Theatre Program at Towson University for 2006-7. She was recently re-elected to a second term on the Board of Directors of the Network of Ensemble Theatres

Board of Directors

Our Board of Directors is made up of people who have decided that Ko plays an important enough part in their lives that they are willing to donate their “time, talent and treasure” in order to ensure Ko’s continued existence. There are many ways to help. WON’T YOU JOIN THEM?

Dan Green
President of
The Green Internet Group

Ellen Di Giovanni
French Instructor/Performing Artist
Read about her artistic work: HowToWriteALetter.org

Sarah Goshman
Assistant Director of Jacob’s Cure

Sabrina Hamilton
Artistic Director of Ko Theater Works/Ko Festival of Performance

Jenny Spencer
Professor, English Department
University of Massachusetts

Teresa Whitaker
Storyteller and Musician

Email us for further information or call us anytime at (413) 427-6147