Krystel is a New York City-based freelance actor, director, audition coach, and teaching artist who values human connection and the necessity of utilizing our voices to serve the community. It is her mission to provide a safe, playful, and creative laboratory for people to explore the tenets of voice, speech, and movement which will elevate their professional presence in the boardroom and beyond. Her goal is to investigate multiple pathways to shed old habits, free physicality, enhance vocal production, spark imaginative storytelling, and promote collaboration amongst all industry professionals. Her vast experience in restaurants, the newsroom, the classroom, on stage and on screen gives her a multifaceted approach to facilitate and lead dynamic sessions with tangible results.

As an actor, some of her selected credits include Dial M For Murder (Westport Country Playhouse); Galboss Power Hour (Primary Stages); Hamlet (Shakespeare Theatre DC); Pride and Prejudice, Good People (Dorset Theatre Festival); Couriers and Contrabands (Barrow Group Theatre); Our Town (Triad Stage); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare in the Park(ing) Lot); Twelfth Night, The Christians (Denver Center); Disgraced (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Twelfth Night Short Shakespeare (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Twelfth Night, The Book of Will (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival); In the Next Room (Syracuse Stage and Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice (Old Globe Theatre); Good People, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily (Alley Theatre); Death and the King’s Horseman, Macbeth (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); The Sty of the Blind Pig (TheaterWorks Hartford); The Summer House (Passage Theatre Company). On television, she appeared in Jessica Jones (Netflix) and The Blacklist (NBC).

Krystel is a proud volunteer at 52nd Street Project (a beloved NYC community arts program), where she directs professional theater artists and dramaturgs with emerging youth talent. She is a long-serving volunteer and chair of the NYU Grad Acting Alumni Association. She received her BA from UNC-Asheville, graduated from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, and holds her MFA from NYU’s Grad Acting Program at Tisch School of the Arts.