Los Angeles Ballet, Artistic Directors Thordal Christensen and Colleen Neary

Design Director, Los Angeles Ballet

Along with her duties overseeing all print, web and promotional materials for Los Angeles Ballet, Catherine Kanner also designed the sets for LAB's original production of The Nutcracker which debuted with the company in December 2006.

As owner of Kanner Design & Illustration, Catherine has been a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times Opinion Section, with her editorial illustrations syndicated to 2000 newspapers in the U.S. and 1,000 worldwide. She has written, illustrated and designed more than 20 editions including her own texts (The Book of the Bath, Beauty From a Country Garden), and many books for other authors (Michael Crichton’s Timeline, Fun With Ballet, San Francisco Access, Angelina's Ballet Class). She has designed for The Metropolitan Opera Guild in New York, and has won numerous illustration and design awards including the Society of Newspaper Design Award, Print’s Regional Design Award, the Louie Award and Rounce & Coffin Awards for excellence in book design.