{"id":7095,"date":"2009-12-08T14:47:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T22:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=7095"},"modified":"2009-12-08T14:47:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T22:47:36","slug":"the-kurners-a-family-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=7095","title":{"rendered":"The Kurners: A Family Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Kurners_120309_FINAL_UNCROPPED.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Kurners_120309_FINAL_UNCROPPED.jpg','popup','width=400,height=300,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Kurners_120309_FINAL_UNCROPPED-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Kurners 120309 Final Uncropped\" \/><\/a>We knew the acting talent at New Village Arts Theatre ran deep, but we didn&#8217;t know how deep. Thanks to a <strong>Lillian Cox<\/strong> story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/thecoastnews.com\/pages\/full_story\/push?article-The+Kurners-+Carlsbad%E2%80%99s+royal+family+of+acting%20&amp;id=5038606-The+Kurners-+Carlsbad%E2%80%99s+royal+family+of+acting&amp;instance=coast_top_story\" target=\"_blank\">The Coast News<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, we now know a lot more about the Kurner family.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Kristianne Kurner<\/strong> is executive artistic director of the award-winning New Village Arts Theatre. She founded the theater in 2001 with former husband <strong>Francis Gercke<\/strong> who is currently associate artistic director of the <strong>Cygnet Theatre<\/strong> in San Diego. Kristianne also teaches the \u201cStudy of Filmed Plays\u201d and runs the <strong>Actors Academy<\/strong> at <strong>MiraCosta College<\/strong>. . . Kristianne\u2019s mother, <strong>Laura Kurner<\/strong>, also an actor, manages the new <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newvillagearts.org\/foundry.php\" target=\"_blank\">Art Foundry<\/a><\/strong>. It is a complex of artist studios with public access in the New Village Arts Theater building, which is owned by the city of Carlsbad. . . Kristianne\u2019s son <strong>Jonah Gercke<\/strong>, 11, has already made a name for himself, garnering rave reviews for his performance in \u201cDistracted\u201d at MiraCosta College, a role Kristianne explains he was cast in on his own merit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, there&#8217;s a lot more, but you should probably read it yourself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thecoastnews.com\/pages\/full_story\/push?article-The+Kurners-+Carlsbad%E2%80%99s+royal+family+of+acting%20&amp;id=5038606-The+Kurners-+Carlsbad%E2%80%99s+royal+family+of+acting&amp;instance=coast_top_story\" target=\"_blank\">The Coast News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We knew the acting talent at New Village Arts Theatre ran deep, but we didn&#8217;t know how deep. Thanks to a Lillian Cox story in The Coast News, we now know a lot more about the Kurner family. Kristianne Kurner is executive artistic director of the award-winning New Village Arts Theatre. She founded the theater [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7096,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095\/revisions\/7096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}