Faculty Profiles

Kiira’s Broadway performance credits include Follies (2011 revival), Anything Goes (2011 revival), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2012 revival), Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (2008-09), and No No Nanette and Stairway to Paradise for Encores! at New York City Center. Her domestic tour credits include Fame The Musical, Crazy for You, and A Chorus Line, with international credits being Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, Broadway Asia’s Real to Reel in Beijing, and Linzer Klangwolke 2023 in Austria. Internationally, Kiira works closely with Emmy winner and Tony nominee Joshua Bergasse to recreate the work of Jerome Robbins in West Side Story. Productions of note include Revival Choreographer for Opera Australia’s production of West Side Story in 2024 in Sydney, Australia; Associate Choreographer at Teatro Lirico in Sardinia Italy; The Washing National Opera at The Kennedy Center; The Lyric Opera of Chicago; Houston Grand Opera; LA Opera; Barrington Stage, North Carolina Theater, and Fulton Theater; as well as the West Side Story 50th Anniversary flash mob in Times Square. Additional choreography work includes Associate Choreographer on the NBC TV show SMASH and The Fred Astaire Awards. Carper’s choreography was recognized by Austin Critics Table Awards, for Texas State University’s production of Ragtime, which was named the Best Production of 2018. In 2016, she received the Excellence in Choreography award from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at TXST, an honor she also received in 2013 for A Funny Thing Happened…Forum at Sam Houston State University. BFA in Musical Theater from Elon University. Kiira is currently Co-Head of Musical Theatre at Texas State University.