Winner of NINE Acting & Tech Theatre Awards from the 2026 Middle School Play Festival at the North Carolina Theatre Conference!
Ms. Kristin Lundberg is the theatre & dance teacher and director of the Broadway Bengals at Fuquay-Varina Middle School and she grew up in Wake County! She's been teaching the performing & technical arts for 20 years and is in her 5th year at FVMS. She is an adjunct theatre professor at Wake Technical Community College, a playwright, NYC actress, and served as Artistic Director for the Shakespeare's Sister Company, an all-female theatre company she founded in Brooklyn, NY dedicated to producing inclusive plays by women, building creative enrichment programs in women's shelters, and empowering youth in the performing arts.
She is a graduate of Hollins University with her M.F.A. in playwriting and concentration in new play directing and dramaturgy, as well as East Carolina University earning her B.S. in Theatre Education from the School of Theatre and Dance, and Marymount College London Programme with her certificates in Classical Acting, Stage Combat, and Voice.
Ms. Lundberg has been awarded the 2025-2026 Teacher of the Year for Fuquay-Varina Middle School, the 2025 Strong Woman in the Community Award by the Fuquay Varina Women's Club, and the 2026 Adjunct Excellence in Teaching Award for Wake Tech Community College. Additionally, she was a top nine finalist out of 200 nominees for the 2024 WakeEd Partnership Stars Among Us Award for excellence in education. She was awarded SETC's 2020/2021 William E. Wilson Award for theatre education and, as a professional playright, is a member of the Dramatists' Guild and the League of Professional Theatre Women.