KYM MOORE

KMC CONSULTING

Kym Moore is the Gerard Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University where she teaches acting and directing. She has taught acting, directing and dramatic literature at various colleges and universities across the US including Swarthmore, Hampshire, and Sarah Lawrence Colleges, The Conservatory of Theatre Arts and Film at SUNY Purchase College. Kym has also served as guest director at Notre Dame University, Smith, Swarthmore, and Dartmouth Colleges. Professionally, Kym is a multidisciplinary stage director, writer and producer.  Kym has directed plays off-Broadway and in regional theatres including Penumbra Theatre, HereArts Center, The Women’s Project, Boston Center for the Arts, Urban Stages, CAP 21, The Workshop Theatre and StageWest. She is an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, as well as the Lincoln Center Theater Director’s Lab.  She has been nominated for the Alan Schneider Directing Award by the Theatre Communications Group.  At the Women’s Project she was a member of the Directors Forum where she received the distinguished Artistic Leadership Fellowship.  Her one-act play, The Date, won the Pen and Brush Award for Best Short Play in 2003. Pursuant to her interests in metaphysics, science and technology Kym is also the recipient of a Lemelson Foundation grant for the development of the “Brainmachine,” an interactive-biofeedback device that allows performers to control lights, sound, and video using brainwave signals in real time. As founding director of Frogs on the Water Theatre in Santa Fe, New Mexico, she produced new solo-performance works by Le Thi Diem Thuy, Collin Chase, Janice Simmons, formed socially responsible community outreach programs, and experimented with theatrical form combining fine art, film, dance and theatre into her unique style. Kym has served on the Board of Directors of La MaMa E.T.C.  M.F.A. in Directing - University of Massachusetts-Amherst.