Resume
Kaylin/TJ wears many hats, and so has many CVs . Selected directing and performance resumes can be found below. For design, production/arts administration or single-persona performance resumes please email tjalsokj@gmail.com
Awards
Best Drama
Perseids
Short and Sweet Hollywood 2025 • director, costume designer, graphic design
Best Poster
Perseids
Short and Sweet Hollywood 2025 • director, costume designer, graphic design
Best of Fringe
Arson 101
Arson 101
Artists' Pick
Arson 101
Spirit of the Fringe
Dueling Divas (TJ Barr)
2022 Champion
Charm City Fringe Festival 2023 • Georgia (Red), writer, choreographer, director
San Diego International Fringe Festival 2023 • Georgia (Red), writer, choreographer, director
San Diego International Fringe Festival 2023 • Georgia (Red), writer, choreographer, director
Urban Mo's Dueling Divas Drag Competition
Selected Directing Resume
Gruesome Playground Injuries
by Rajiv Joseph
Loud Fridge Theatre Group
Perseids
by Wendy Gough Soroka
Short & Sweet Hollywood Festival (Victory Theatre Burbank)
Arson 101, A Choose Your Own Adventure
by Levani Korganashvili and Kaylin Saur
Touring
Going Broadway: An Evening of New Musicals
by Luis Aragon
Loud Fridge Theatre Group
Two Wolves
by Kaylin Saur
San Diego International Fringe Festival
The Counter (Assistant Director)
by Meghan Kennedy, dir. Desireé Clarke Miller
Moxie Theatre
Henry V (Movement Director)
by William Shakespeare, dir. Lee Engelman
Vanguard Theatre
Resident Director Positions
San Diego Cabaret Project
2024-present
Emerging Artist Director, Technical Director
House of Barr
2022-present
Producing Artistic Director
Loud Fridge Theatre Group
2024-2025
Mini Fridge (second stage program) producer/director
Selected Performance Resume
Twelfth Night of the Living Dead (or What You Kill)
Viola
Loud Fridge Theatre Group • acting, creature character, unarmed stage combat
Georgia (Red)
Arson 101, A CYOA
Touring • acting, music (singing and piano), dance, acrobatics, improvisation
A View From the Bridge
Beatrice
Grossmont College • acting
TJ Barr
SDKC: Kings & Friends
Gossip Grill (San Diego, CA) • host, lip sync, dance, burlesque, clowning
Hit it!
Janet Haffner
San Diego Memoir Writer's Showcase • acting
Host
Triple Threat Throwdown
Loud Fridge Theatre Group (San Diego, CA) • game show host
TJ Barr
San Diego Kings Club
Gossip Grill (San Diego, CA) • lip sync, dance, burlesque, juggling, puppetry, clowning
Robin
Time Machine
AIDA Cruises (Hamburg, Germany & various) • hand to hand acrobatics, tumbling, dance, clowning, acting (scripted lines in German, and improvised)
Acrobat/costume character/
drag king/dancer/puppeteer/
living statue
Events performance
Animate Objects Physical Theatre (Seattle, WA) • roster specialty performer; performed acrobatics, characters, dance, and others at themed events
TJ Barr
Kremwerk Kings
Kremwerk (Seattle, WA) • guest host, lip sync, dance, burlesque, clowning
TJ Barr
Various shows
Randy Andy Productions (Providence, RI) • lip sync, dance, burlesque, clowning
Summer on the Cirque Riviera
Grumpy sailor/Mobster/TJ Barr
SANCA (Seattle, WA) • hand to hand acrobatics, banquine, lip sync, dance, clowning
Folie a Deux
Flyer
Touring • hand to hand acrobatics, acrobatic statue, dance
Education & Training
Voice, Directing, Acting
Ground acrobatics, specializing in hand to hand acrobatics
Dance & choreography creation
Aerial fabric
Trapeze
B.S. in Exercise and Sport Science, concentrations in Coaching and Visual Art (Ceramics)
Grossmont College
Dr. Randall Tweed, Walter Allen Bennett
Eastern Acrobatics and Circus
Jacob Skeffington, Faith Wassman
EAC/HybridMotion
School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts
Jun Kuribyashi
Anna Thomas-Henry
School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts
Alyssa Hellrung
University of Evansville
Dr. Donald Rodd, Dr. Gregg Wilson, Dr. Laura McDonald, Todd Matteson
Special Skills
Physical
Ground & group acrobatics (columns/human pyramid, handstands & hand walking, basic tumbling, basic trampoline), tight wire, chinese pole, pop-locking/body isolations, quadrupedal locomotion, juggling (3 of most items), aerial acrobatics (aerial fabric, trapeze, straps, lyra/hoop, basic flying trapeze), flexibility (splits, backbend) wiggle eyebrows both directions, strong swimmer, code-switching for gender-coded movement
Auditory
Singing (alto/mezzo range), creature sounds, intermediate piano, basic hammered dulcimer & ukulele, snapping, rolling Rs
Other
Puppetry (single and multi-person puppets), basic stage combat (single sword & unarmed), taking off clothes while standing on hands, illusion and effects makeup, gender illusion