Kimberly Richardson
Last updated
January 2, 2019Biography
Kimberly Richardson is an actor, dancer, choreographer, and theatre maker with 18 years on the Twin Cities performance scene. A member of Ten Thousand Things’ Artist Core, Kimberly has appeared frequently with the company since 2008, in productions including Othello, Music Man, As You Like It, Dirt Sticks, and most recently Park and Lake. Also a regular at Open Eye Figure Theatre, Kimberly performed/ co-created My Life as a Fairytale and The Clumsy Man with Michael Sommers and The Red Shoes with Joel Sass. Other credits include: Workhaus Collective, Children's Theatre Company, Jungle Theater, TigerLion Arts, Interact Center, Live Action Set and Sodhouse Theater. Kimberly received a 2016-17 McKnight Theatre Artist Fellowship and a 2006 Sage Award for dance performance.
Résumé
THEATRE PERFORMANCE:
Upcoming: Stewardess! at the History Theatre, A Bright Room Called Day with Red Bird Theatre
Ten Thousand Things: Scapin/ Park and Lake/ The Changelings/ Huh?/ The Unsinkable Molly Brown/ Dirt Sticks/ The Music Man/ Il Campiello/ Twelfth Night/ Othello/ My Fair Lady/ As You Like It
Open Eye Figure Theatre: The Red Shoes/ To the Moon/ The Clumsy Man/ My Life as a Fairytale, or The Ugly Duckling
Sodhouse Theater: The Hoopla Train with Yardmaster Yip and His Polkestra
Original Work: In collaboration with Sara Richardson: The Nosdrahcir Sisters/ The Art of Seduction in collaboration with Ryan Patrick: Follies
TigerLion Arts: Nature
Interact Center: By the Seat of Our Pants
Theatre Novi Most: The Seagull
Live Action Set: Fletcher and Zenobia Save the Circus/ Please Don’t Blow Up Mr. Boban/ The Percussionist/ The Piano Tuner
Jungle Theater: Noises Off
TigerLion Arts: Nature
Children’s Theatre Company: A Special Trade/ The Cat in the Hat (understudy)
Jon Ferguson: The Sad and Lonesome Story of What’s-His-Name/ We are Ugly, but We Have the Music/ Bury my Heart at Dumbass Cowboy/ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
History Theatre: Capital Crimes
Four Humors: Romeo and Juliet
Workhaus Collective: 800 Words
Frank Theatre: Cabaret
Shawn McConneloug and HER Orchestra: Force/ Matter
Salt Lake Acting Company: How I Learned to Drive
DANCE PERFORMANCE AND TRAINING: BFA in Modern Dance from the University of Utah Salt Lake City/ professional dancer in over 75 dance productions/ proficient in modern dance, ballet, jazz, dance composition, dance improvisation
CHOREOGRAPHY Full Length Musicals: Dear World, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Nature Dances within plays: The Red Shoes, Dirt Sticks, Park and Lake, To the Moon, The Art of Seduction, We Are Ugly But We Have the Music
THEATRE TRAINING Raye Birk (Acting)/ Jon Ferguson (Clown), Melissa Hart (voice)/ Michael Sommers (Puppetry)/ Christer Dahl (Puppetry)
TEACHING: acting and dance courses at Augsburgs University/ artist outreach workshops with Ten Thousand Things/ dance classes for children and adults at Zenon Dance Company, Ballaretreatro, North Community High School
AWARDS
2016-2017 McKnight Theatre Artist Fellowship
2006 Sage Award for Dance Performance
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