Kari-Anne Innes is Assistant Director for the Center for the Arts. She is an adjunct instructor of Applied and Interactive Theatre and Director of Valparaiso University's Theatre Outreach Performances and the Young Actors Shakespeare Workshop. She received a MA in Liberal Studies and a BA in Theatre and Television Arts, both from Valparaiso University.

Additionally, she has worked professionally as an instructor at Childrens Theatre Works, Chicago Street Theatre; Stage Manager/Actor, Canterbury Summer Theatre; Actor/Literary Manager, Kaleidoscope Learning Theatre; Stage Manager/Miss Chicago Scholarship Pageant; and apprenticed at The Purple Rose Theatre Company.