KYM MOORE CURRICULUM VITAE 

Website: kymmoore.com

Antigravityperformanceproject.org 

Email: Kym_Moore@brown.edu

Kymothy4@gmail.com

 

EDUCATION

MFA University of Massachusetts/Amherst,Directing 1992

BA State University of NewYork at New Paltz, Theatre Arts1981

 

ADDITIONAL/TRAINING

BrownUniversity/OVPR,Grant Writing Workshop 2018

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CreativeCapital, Internet for Artists (Workshop)

LaMama E.T.C., International Symposium for Directors 2011

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Umbria, Italy 2000

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Screenwriting, Sarah Lawrence College Story Structure/Screenwriting, Robert McKee Seminar, 2004-2005

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Hunter College Director’s Project, Directing Intern 1989

 

Hangar Theater Ithaca ,NY 1982

 

Professional Representation: Directing Victoria Morris, Lexikat Artists, ManagerMichael Finkle, Lizzy Weingold, William Morris Endeavor, Agents 2022

 

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

Full Professor, TAPS Department, BrownUniversity (currentlyonleave) 2019-2023

 

Dean, Ira Brind School of Theater Arts,University of the Arts 2021

 

Associate Professor, TAPS Department, Brown University 2015-19

 

Assistant Professor, TAPS Department, Brown University 2011-2015

 

Gerard Visiting Assistant Professor, TAPS Department, Brown University 2008-2011

 

Visiting AssistantProfessor, Swarthmore College 2007-2008

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Visiting Lecturer, SUNY Purchase College 2006-2008

 

Associate Professor, Sarah Lawrence College 2001-2007

 

Honors Thesis Examiner, Swarthmore College 2003-2012

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Sarah Lawrence College, Film/New Media Program 2003-2006

Directing Actors for Film-Craft Class -instructor

 

Sarah Lawrence College, Film/New Media Program 2005

Brandeis  High  School Media Project-instructor/volunteer

 

Assistant Professor, Hampshire College 1996-2001  

 

Visiting Assistant Professor, Hampshire College1995-1996

 

Visiting Assistant Professor, Theater dept., Notre Dame University 1994

 

Assistant Professor, Indiana State University 1993-1995

 

INVITED WORKSHOPS

Acting Outside the Box: The Body as Source Material, Guest Artist/Workshop Instructor, Pig Iron Theater, Philadelphia, PA    ( 2023)

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Acting Outside the Box, Guest Artist Workshop Instructor 2022

 

Georgetown University Department of Performing Arts, Washington, DC 2022

 

Acting Outside the Box, Guest Artist Workshop Emory University, Department of Theater Arts, Atlanta, GA

 

Acting Outside the Box, Guest Artist Workshop,

The Groundwork Residency, Durham, CT 2022

 

Acting Outside the Box, Guest Artist Workshop, The Juilliard School, NY, NY 2022

 

Visual Storytelling/Composition –Directing Workshop National Theatre Institute/Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT 2022

 

Acting Outside the Box, Guest Artist Workshop 2022

Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Festival Participants 2019

 

Acting Outside the Box, Guest Workshop Instructor/Guest Director, The Julliard School, New York, NY (*ongoing)*2017-Present

 

Acting Outside the Box, Guest Workshop Instructor National Theater Institute, Eugene O’Neil Theater Center Waterford, CT (*ongoing) *2010

 

Acting Outside the Box, Guest Workshop Instructor, New York University, Graduate Acting Program 2018

 

Acting Outside the Box,Guest Workshop Instructor, Williamstown Theater Festival, Williamstown, MA 2018

 

Acting Outside the Box, Guest Workshop Instructor,

University of Oklahoma, School of Drama, Norman, Oklahoma 2018

 

Acting Outside the Box, Guest Workshop Instructor, Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Sibiu Romania 2017–2019 Acting Outside the Box, Guest Workshop Instructor, Brown/Trinity Graduate Acting and Directing Program 2018

 

Acting Outside the Box, Guest Workshop Instructor, Belgrade Youth Theater Festival, Coventry, England 2016

 

Presence in Performance, Guest Workshop Instructor, Shanghai Theatre Academy, Shanghai, China 2012

 

Director’s Lab, Guest Instructor, National Theater Institute, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center Waterford, CT *2010

 

Please note that any date that includes an * asterisk denotes an ongoing relationship with that specific institution.

 

PERFORMANCES, PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS DIRECTING:

Professional Coffee Street Studios, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY 15H: (Workshop Prod) Devised by Andromache Chalfant 2022 & 2023

 

Third Space Performance Laboratory, Williamstown, MA 2022

 

To The Academy by Shanti Pillai & Marc Gomes Georgetown University, Racial Justice Institute, DC 2022

 

Zora On My Mind (Developmental Workshop/Production)

Williams College, Department of Theater, Williamstown, MA 2022

 

Sometimes the Rain, Sometimes the Sea by Julia Izumi 2022

 

Riverside Church, Producer/Director, New York, NY Paul Carter Harrison: A Tribute 2022

 

Georgetown University, Racial Justice Institute, DC 2021

 

Zora On My Mind (Developmental Workshop) Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, Antigravity PP, NH, CT Do Eye Know You?  by Kym Moore (residency) 2019

 

The ChainTheatre, Antigravity Performance Project, NYC, NY Miss Julie by August Strindberg 2019

 

Mahaiwe Theatre, Berkshire Playwrights Lab, Great Barrington, MA  The Drop Off by James Anthony Tyler (reading) 2019

 

Philip Chosky Theater, Carnegie Mellon University, School of Drama, Pittsburgh, PA Detroit’67 by Dominique Morrisseau 2017-2018

 

Drama Theater, Juilliard School, Drama Division, NYC Hoodoo Love by Katori Hall

 

Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM), Yale University, New Haven,  CT, Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles, CA; UCLA, School of Film, Television, and Theater, California State Long Beach, Department of Theater. **Time’s Up! (Production Workshops), Conceived, Written, and Directed by Kym Moore 2017

**This piece has been renamed Do Eye Know You?”

 

National Theatre Institute, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT **Verses at Work (Residency I&2) by Malik Work 2017 & 2018

 

SIBIU International Theater Festival, Sibiu, Romania **Three Legs,Devised by Yannik Stevens, Sebastian Niculescu, & YidanZeng **Supervised, Managed, and raised funds for three Brown/RISD students to present an original performance work devised in the Brown/RISD Co-Lab. 2017

 

Granoff Creative Arts Center, Brown University, Providence, RI 2015 Time’s Up! Conceived, Written and Directed by Kym Moore in collaboration with Todd Winkler & AntiGravity Theatre Project 2015

 

Harlem School of the Arts, New York, NY 2015 REVIVAL: Black Stage Works Revisited: Les Blancs by Lorraine Hansberry 2015

 

Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory, Providence, RI The Gospel of Loving Kindness by Marcus Gardley 2013

 

TheShetlerPenthouse Studios, NY, NY

20/20: A New Song Cycle Musical, Written and Composed by Andrew Hertz 2013

 

Manhattan Theater Club Studios, NY, NY White Trash (Reading) by Sheron Leonard 2013

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LA MAMA, E.T.C In New York City, Factory Theatre, Boston    2012
Yermedea Raw By Erik Ehn
In Collaboration w/ Alejandra Prieto (Madrid)
AWARE: Congolese Refugee Event, JWU Culinary Museum    2012
Mirrored by Dorothy Abrams
Harvard Playwright’s Festival, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA    2012
Lila by Betty Rosen

Stuart Theatre, Brown University, TAPS Department    2011
Stand On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays:
London Mosquitoes by Moises Kaufman; White Marriage
By Jeffrey Hatcher; This Marriage is Saved by Joe Kennan

Tisch School of the Arts: Musical Theater Writing Program (wksp)    2011
20/20: A New Song Cycle Musical, Written and Composed by Andrew Hertz Dramaturges: Kym Moore/ Ned Riseley’12
LA MAMA, E.T.C In New York City, (in development)    2011-12
Yermedea Raw By Erik Ehn
In Collaboration w/ Alejandra Prieto (Madrid)
Soho Rep, Off-Broadway, New York City    2010-11
Jomama Jones: Radiate
Lyrics/book byDaniel Alexander Jones, Composer/Music Direction by Bobby Halvorson


New Dramatists, Workshop, NYC    2010
Jomama Jones: Radiate
Book & Lyrics by Daniel Alexander Jones, Composer, Bobby Halvorson

Joe’s Pub/NYSF/Public Theater, NYC
Jomama Jones in Concert
Book & Lyrics by Daniel Alexander Jones,
Composer, Bobby Halvorson    2010

Perishable Theater, Providence, RI    2009
Anna Bella Eema by Lisa D’Amour

Byrdcliffe Music Inc., Manhattan Theatre Club, Associate Director
Le Hot Blu by Anita Gonzalez and Ken Lauber    2007-8

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Co-Director
The Anarcha Project-Symposium    2007
New York Theater Workshop, Reading, NYC    2006
Right to Act by Dominic Taylor
Samuel French One-Act Play Festival-Semi-Finalist, ATA, NYC    2006
Cover by Djola Branner



Urban Stages, SpringBoard 2001, SLC, NYC
Doors by Allison Kyle,    2001
East Lecture Hall, Hampshire College, Stage Mother Productions
All That…. By Mariah Richardson    2001


Penumbra Theater, Director, St. Paul, MN,
for colored girls that have considered suicide
when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange    1999

Bentley Theater, Dartmouth College,Hanover, NH    2000
The Island by Athol Fugard
StageWest, Studio Theater, Co-Director, Springfield, MA,    1993
Vision of Fire by Andrea Hairston
Lincoln Center Theater, Audrey Skirball-Kenis Playwrights Program, NYC JFK and the Clex Go Khmer America by Doyle Avant
(New Play Reading featuring: Lea Salonga, John Benjamin Hickey)    1992
Boston Center for the Arts, B&B Productions, Director    1997
Muses by Gail Burton
Frogs on the Water Theater, Producing Director, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Stinky the Monkey, by Janice Simmons    1999
I Delores Lost Member of the Jackson Family
by Collin Chase    1996
Red Firey Summer by Le Thi Diem Thuy    1996
Visions ‘94  by Frogs on the Water/ Artist's Collective    1994
The Date by Kym Moore    1994
SummerStage, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
Three Ways Home  by Casey Kurtti    1995
Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker    1994
Notre Dame University, Department of Theater, South Bend, IN    1993-94
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry





DIRECTING: Academic
Leeds Theater, Brown University, TAPS Department
Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise by Toshiki Okada    2019

Leeds Theater, Brown University, TAPS Department
By The Way, Meet Vera Stark by Lynn Nottage    2016
Stuart Theater, Brown University, TAPS Department    2015
The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry by Marcus Gardley
Stuart Theater, Brown University, TAPS Department    2014
Hype Hero, by Dominic Taylor
Stuart Theater, Brown University, TAPS Department    2014
Passing Strange, Book & Lyric by Stew
Music by Stew & Heidi Rodewald    2014
Leeds Theater, Brown University, TAPS Department
Yermedea Raw by Erik Ehn    2012

Leeds Theater, Brown University,
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
By Moises Kaufman    2011
Rites and Reason, Brown University
Sash and Trim by Djola Branner    2011

Granoff Creative Arts Center, Brown University
Yermedea Raw by Erik Ehn    2011-

Granoff Creative Arts Center, Brown University    2011
Pippin/Opening Gala Event
Stuart Theater, Brown University    2010
Pippin
Music/Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz Book by Roger O. Hirson
Leeds Theater, Brown University    2010
The Cook by Eduardo Machado
Leeds Theater, Brown University
The Other Shore by Gao Xingjian    2009
Leeds Theatre, Brown University
Funnyhouse of A Negro by Adrienne Kennedy    2008





Frear Ensemble Theater, Swarthmore College    2008
The Other Shore by Gao Xingjian
Mad Girls’ Love Song:
True Confessions from the lives of Sylvia Plath and Assia Wevil
Written and Performed by Rachel Sugar    2007

Frances Cannon Theater-Sarah Lawrence College    2006
Bodas de Sangre/Blood Wedding
by Federico Garcia Lorca

Studio Theater, Sarah Lawrence College, Theater Program    2004
Day in The Doorway: Original Multi-Media Performance Devised by Kym Moore in collaboration with SLC Students

Workshop Theater, Sarah Lawrence College, Theater Program    2001
Angel with a Lead Pipe by Sean O’Connor

Studio Theater, Hampshire College, Theater Program    2000
Flood of Fire: Original Multi-Media Performance Devised by Kym Moore in
collaboration w/ Judyie Al-Bilali and students in the Hampshire College Theater Program
Theater Program, Writer/Director, Hampshire College    1998
Divide & Conquer

Department of Theater, Director, Indiana State University
The Tempest    1994
Miss Julie/The Date    1994
Department of Theater, Guest Director, Notre Dame University
A Raisin in the Sun    1994

Department of Theater, University of Massachusetts/ Amherst


Tisch School of the Arts, Film School, Assistant Director, New York University
Murder is Sweet (Film w/ Bob Gunton)    1982






STAGE MANAGEMENT: Professional

University of Massachusetts at Amherst/ Fine Arts Center,
Production Services, Production Stage Manager, Amherst,    1992-3
Professional Bus and Truck Touring House- Season included: Suzzanne Vega    BFA Dance Concert
Grand Hotel    Symphony Band
Angela Davis    Ralph Nader
Jazz All -Stars    Trisha Brown Dance Company New Zealand Ballet    Percussion Ensemble

Westside Arts Theater, Production Stage Manager, Off-Broadway,    1984
Etched In Stone (AEA Showcase)    1984
New Writers at the Westside (Staged Reading Series)    1984
La MaMa ETC., Assistant Stage Manager, Off-Broadway
New York City, NY,    1984
Skins & Tongues (w/ John Densmore)
Williamstown Theater Festival, Production Stage Manager,
The Savoy Theater, Broadway, NYC,    1984
Williamstown Theater Festival Benefit
Williamstown Theater Festival, Production Stage Manager, Williamstown, MA
WTF Cabaret    1983
Special Events at the Clark Museum    1983
Wonderhorse Theater, Assistant Stage Manager,
Off-Off Broadway, NYC    1983
Touched (AEA Showcase)

Barbara Matera Inc., Shopper, Broadway, NYC    1984-5
Theoni Aldridge, Santo Laquasto & Ann Roth (Designers)
Professional Costume Design Company -Designers & Productions: Sweet Charity    (Broadway Productions)
Big River    "
La Cage Aux Folles    "
Singing in the Rain    "
American Ballet Theater    "
FX    (Feature Film)

Orpheum Theater, Production Assistant, Off-Broadway,    1983-5
Little Shop Of Horrors
The Julliard School, Production Assistant, NYC    1984
Ill Trittico (Opera)
Spoleto Festival USA, Special Events, Electrician,
Charleston, SC    1983
The Perfectionist    (Australian Production)
Ariadne Auf Naxos (Opera)
Dizzy Gillespie and The Dixieland All Stars Spoleto Symphony Orchestra: Finale

OTHER PROFESSIONAL THEATRE/PERFORMANCE
**Antigravity Performance Project, CO-Artistic Director/Founder,           *2012- Producer: Kym Moore /Antigravity Performance Project           2019-20
Legal Tender by Kyle Dacuyan, directed by Michael Williams




Various sessions    2017
125 Years of Women at Brown, Brown University    2017
Lynn Nottage Interview
Players Club, National Theatre Conference, New York City, NY    2015
Diversity in Production
National Theater Institute, O’Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT Launching Tomorrow’s Theater Artists Today: Keynote Speaker
Acting Outside the Box: Lecture/Demo

TAPS Department Commencement Ceremony, Brown University
Commencement Speaker:    2011
The Artist in Society by Kym Moore

Senior Seminar: Brown University, TAPS



SUNY New Paltz, Department of Theater, Guest Artist Lecture
On Directing: One African-American Woman’s Journey    2007
Sarah Lawrence College, Faculty On The Road    2006
Global Perspectives in Performance: The Other Shore by Gao Xingjian
Sarah Lawrence College, Thomas Allen Harris: Q & A    2006
The Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela (moderator)
Association for Theater in Higher Education,    1998
Feminist Interventions in Performance Pedagogy (panelist)
African American Review, Literary Journal, Black Theater ed.,    1998
The Date by Kym Moore
Review of Muses by Gail Burton, directed by Kym Moore
City University of New York, Ph.D Program in Theater,
Graduate Research Center, NYC    1997
Teaching as if Race and Gender Matter (Lecture/Workshop w/ Ellen Donkin)

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Hampshire College, Dakin Lunch Series,    1997
Women, Art, and Expression: The Act of Self-Representation (Lecture)

USITT, National Conference, Director, Nashville, TN,    1994
Computer Aided Design Technology & The Collaborative  Process (Panelist)

Indiana State University, Women’s Resource Center, Lecturer,
Re-Constructing the Female Image in Theater    1994

Indiana State University, Department of English,
Guest Lecturer,    1993-4
Romeo and Juliet: Demystifying Shakespeare in Production Miss Julie/The Date: Anxieties of the Nineties Woman

Indiana State University, African-American Women’s Conference
{Media}Images of African-American Women (Panelist)    1993
Notre Dame University, Department of Theater, Lectures,
Contemporary Themes in “A Raisin in the Sun " (Panelist)    1994
The Director’s Role in the Theater (Lecture)    1994
Liminal Spaces: One Director’s Vision (Lecture)    1994
Hansberry’s Role in the Development of Black Theater     1994
Communication Styles in Directing: Directors & Designers    1994

Association for Theater in Higher Education Conference,
Director/Educator, (Panelist), Atlanta, GA,    1992
The Black Performing Artist in a White Academic World Fostering Cultural Pluralism in the Classroom: Four Perspectives

Smith College, Department of Theater, Director, (Panelist)    1992
Women Director's Speak: On Ethnicity, Gender, Race, & Culture in Directing
GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS
BAI Presentation Grant for “Race: A Performance and a Conversation”

CAC Arts Initiative Grant: Yermedea Raw    2012
MAP Fund Grant: Jomama Jones in Concert & Radiate    2010
Perhisable Theater-RAPTOR Program (artist residency)    2009
Brown University Creative Arts Council Grants (various)    2008/9
Shanti Pillai: South Asian Dance Theater Training    Spring 2009
Jane Nichols: Buffoun Performance Training (Pippin)    Fall 2010 Jane Nichols: Movement and Comic Timing (Gross Indecency)    Fall 2011 Alexis Gonzalez de Villegas, Movement for the Actor Training in Cuba  Fall 2011 Rodriquez-Amat Foundation: Artists Residency (Spain)        2006
Women’s Project-Artistic Leadership Fellow    2002-03
Mellon Foundation Grants for Research and Travel    2000-01
Lemelson Foundation Grant for the development of Interactive
multi-media technology for use in live Theater/performance    1998
Five College Multi-Cultural Theater Committee Grant
for video/slides used in Divide & Conquer    1998
Lemelson Foundation grant for research
on the current uses of Technology in Theater    1997
Hampshire College Summer Faculty Development Grants    1996-01
University of Massachusetts Graduate Fellowship    1989
HONORS/AWARDS



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