Kristen Marshall was born in Plantation, Florida, and began her early training in Savannah, Georgia with Madeline Walker Ballet School under Gaye Baxley. She continued her training at Summer Intensives such as Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, The Rock School for Dance Education and Atlanta Ballet. In 2014, she began her career with Atlanta Ballet where she danced as Rosita in Helen Pickett’s Camino Realand appeared in Bruce Wells’ Snow White, John McFall’s The Nutcracker, David Bintley’s Carmina Burana, George Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante, Marius Petitpa’s Paquitaand Yuri Possokhov’s Firebird. As well as the title character in John McFall’s Sleeping Beauty with Atlanta Ballet 2 in 2016. In 2017, Marshall joined the Nancy Einhorn Milwaukee Ballet II program and in 2018 she was promoted to Artist in the main company. With the Milwaukee Ballet she has performed in Michael Pink’s Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and Dracula. As well as works by Kenneth Tindall, Enrico Morelli, and Bruce Wells