Kim Weild
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Kim Weild is a Drama Desk Award
nominated theatre director, choreographer, actor
, writer
and educator, living and working in New York
.
and dancer, Kim Weild has performed extensively in both Europe
and the United States
. Among her many collaborators and associates are Anne Bogart
(SITI Co.), Diane Paulus, Tina Kronis and Richard Algers, George Balanchine
, Caryl Churchill
, Max Stafford-Clark, Simon Curtis, André Gregory
, Judith Malina
, Larry Moss
, Mike Nichols
, George Morrison
, Sabrina Peck, Abraham Pulido, Richard Schechner
, Paul Sills
, Tadashi Suzuki
and Robert Wilson
.
. In 2004 Kim began graduate work at Columbia University
’s three-year MFA directing program. Her directorial work includes the 2010 Drama Desk nominated production of Charles L. Mee's "Fêtes de la Nuit" for Unique Theatrical Experience which also garnered 7 New York Innovative Theatre Award nominations winning two, Mee's "Big Love", the Off-Broadway world premiere of Luigi Creatore's "An Error of the Moon", "Uncle Vanya" (Official selection Prague Quadrennial), "Kaddish" by Allen Ginsberg
for the New York International Fringe Festival
, "The Good Woman of Setzuan" with original music by Two Star Symphony, "My Fair Lady", "Eccentricities of a Nightingale", "Endgame
", Andrea Lepcio’s "A Peddler’s Tale:Buttons, Guts and Bluetooth", as the Foeller Fellow she created a new conceptualization of "Paradise Now" for the Williamstown Theater Festival, and "A Decade of Dreams: Celebrating the Music of the Young People’s Chorus of New York" at Carnegie Hall
.
During a period of several years spent on the West Coast, Kim Weild designed and executed the movement scoring for director Brad Mays
' controversial 1997 adaptation of Euripides
"The Bacchae" which was nominated for three LA Weekly Theatre Awards.
Kim Weild is actively engaged in developing new work for the stage. She continues to direct workshops and readings at Goodspeed Musicals,
Lincoln Center Theater, Primary Stages, NY Theater Workshop, Ma-Yi 2 G, New Georges, Epiphany Ensemble and Columbia Stages. She is associate director to Michael Blakemore having worked with him most recently on the Broadway
revival of Blithe Spirit
starring Angela Lansbury
, and previously on Terrence McNally
’s Deuce
, and Mark Twain
/David Ives’ Is He Dead?
Additionally, Weild has acted as associate director for Tina Landau on Tarell McCraney’s WIG OUT!, and Charles Mee’s Iphigenia 2.0 at The Signature Theater.
Drama Desk Award
The Drama Desk Awards, which are given annually in a number of categories, are the only major New York theater honors for which productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway compete against each other in the same category...
nominated theatre director, choreographer, actor
Actor
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, writer
Writer
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and educator, living and working in New York
New York City
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.
Background
As an actorActor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
and dancer, Kim Weild has performed extensively in both Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
and the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Among her many collaborators and associates are Anne Bogart
Anne Bogart
-Biography:She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Bard College in 1974, followed by a Master of Arts degree from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1977. She served as Artistic Director of the Trinity Repertory Company for its 1989-90 season...
(SITI Co.), Diane Paulus, Tina Kronis and Richard Algers, George Balanchine
George Balanchine
George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...
, Caryl Churchill
Caryl Churchill
Caryl Churchill is an English dramatist known for her use of non-naturalistic techniques and feminist themes, the abuses of power, and sexual politics. She is acknowledged as a major playwright in the English language and a leading female writer...
, Max Stafford-Clark, Simon Curtis, André Gregory
Andre Gregory
Andre William Gregory is an American theatre director, writer and actor.Gregory studied at Harvard University.During the 1960s and 1970s, Gregory directed a number of avant-garde productions developed through ensemble collaboration, the most famous of which was Alice In Wonderland , based on Lewis...
, Judith Malina
Judith Malina
Judith Malina is an American theater and film actress, writer, and director, who was one of the founders of The Living Theatre.-Early life:...
, Larry Moss
Larry Moss
Lawrence “Larry” Charles Moss is an American artist who works mainly with latex balloons. Renowned in his field for his large and technically challenging sculptures, he has orchestrated the creation of several large scale installations in North America and Asia, including a successful Guinness...
, Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols is a German-born American television, stage and film director, writer, producer and comedian. He began his career in the 1950s as one half of the comedy duo Nichols and May, along with Elaine May. In 1968 he won the Academy Award for Best Director for the film The Graduate...
, George Morrison
George Morrison
George Morrison is the name of:* George Morrison , silent film actor starring in The Cameo of the Yellowstone* George Morrison , American artist...
, Sabrina Peck, Abraham Pulido, Richard Schechner
Richard Schechner
Richard Schechner is Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University , editor of TDR: The Drama Review, and artistic director of East Coast Artists. His BA is from Cornell University , MA from the University of Iowa , and PhD from Tulane University...
, Paul Sills
Paul Sills
Paul Sills was a director and improvisation teacher, and the original director of Chicago's The Second City.-Biography:...
, Tadashi Suzuki
Tadashi Suzuki
Tadashi Suzuki is a theatre director, writer and philosopher working out of Toga, Toyama, Japan. Suzuki is the founder and director of the Suzuki Company of Toga , organizer of Japan’s first international theatre festival , co-founder of the Saratoga International Theatre Institute in Saratoga...
and Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson (director)
Robert Wilson is an American avant-garde stage director and playwright who has been called "[America]'s — or even the world's — foremost vanguard 'theater artist'". Over the course of his wide-ranging career, he has also worked as a choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video...
.
Directorial work
Kim Weild studied for ten years at The School of American Ballet, during which time she frequently performed with the New York City BalletNew York City Ballet
New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...
. In 2004 Kim began graduate work at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
’s three-year MFA directing program. Her directorial work includes the 2010 Drama Desk nominated production of Charles L. Mee's "Fêtes de la Nuit" for Unique Theatrical Experience which also garnered 7 New York Innovative Theatre Award nominations winning two, Mee's "Big Love", the Off-Broadway world premiere of Luigi Creatore's "An Error of the Moon", "Uncle Vanya" (Official selection Prague Quadrennial), "Kaddish" by Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. He vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression...
for the New York International Fringe Festival
New York International Fringe Festival
The New York International Fringe Festival, or FringeNYC, is a Fringe theater festival and one of the largest multi-arts events in North America. It takes place over the course of two weeks every August, spread across several neighborhoods in downtown Manhattan, notably the Lower East Side, the...
, "The Good Woman of Setzuan" with original music by Two Star Symphony, "My Fair Lady", "Eccentricities of a Nightingale", "Endgame
Endgame (play)
Endgame, by Samuel Beckett, is a one-act play with four characters, written in a style associated with the Theatre of the Absurd. It was originally written in French ; as was his custom, Beckett himself translated it into English. The play was first performed in a French-language production at the...
", Andrea Lepcio’s "A Peddler’s Tale:Buttons, Guts and Bluetooth", as the Foeller Fellow she created a new conceptualization of "Paradise Now" for the Williamstown Theater Festival, and "A Decade of Dreams: Celebrating the Music of the Young People’s Chorus of New York" at Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
.
During a period of several years spent on the West Coast, Kim Weild designed and executed the movement scoring for director Brad Mays
Brad Mays
Brad Mays is an independent filmmaker and stage director, living and working in Los Angeles, California.-Background and education:...
' controversial 1997 adaptation of Euripides
Euripides
Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him but according to the Suda it was ninety-two at most...
"The Bacchae" which was nominated for three LA Weekly Theatre Awards.
Kim Weild is actively engaged in developing new work for the stage. She continues to direct workshops and readings at Goodspeed Musicals,
Lincoln Center Theater, Primary Stages, NY Theater Workshop, Ma-Yi 2 G, New Georges, Epiphany Ensemble and Columbia Stages. She is associate director to Michael Blakemore having worked with him most recently on the Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
revival of Blithe Spirit
Blithe Spirit (play)
Blithe Spirit is a comic play written by Noël Coward which takes its title from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "To a Skylark" . The play concerns socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to...
starring Angela Lansbury
Angela Lansbury
Angela Brigid Lansbury CBE is an English actress and singer in theatre, television and motion pictures, whose career has spanned eight decades and earned her more performance Tony Awards than any other individual , with five wins...
, and previously on Terrence McNally
Terrence McNally
Terrence McNally is an American playwright who has received four Tony Awards, an Emmy, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Hull-Warriner Award, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has been a member of the Council of the...
’s Deuce
Deuce (play)
Deuce is a play by Terrence McNally. The Broadway production, directed by Michael Blakemore, starred Angela Lansbury as blue collar Leona Mullen and Marian Seldes as well-bred Midge Barker, two former successful tennis partners, now retired, who reunite to be honored at a women's quarterfinals...
, and Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...
/David Ives’ Is He Dead?
Is He Dead?
Is He Dead? is a play by Mark Twain. It was first published in print in 2003, after Mark Twain scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin read the manuscript in the archives of the Mark Twain Papers at the University of California at Berkeley. The play was long known to scholars but never attracted much...
Additionally, Weild has acted as associate director for Tina Landau on Tarell McCraney’s WIG OUT!, and Charles Mee’s Iphigenia 2.0 at The Signature Theater.