Richard Kimmel

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Richard Kimmel is a New York-based theatre director, writer, and theatrical producer. He is currently Executive Director of The Box, a venue for theater, music, and nightlife in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and Artistic Director of Cannon Company, a performing ensemble.

His New York directing and producing credits include:

Beat Generation (world premiere of lost play by Jack Kerouac, The Box, 2007)
Puss (The Performing Garage)
Pleasuredome I and II (Combustive Arts)
Witches MacBeth (HERE, Angel Orensanz, WAH Center)
Three Sisters (28th Street Theater).

His adaptation of Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent was presented at Dactyl in SoHo. He also produced and directed the Pleasure Blister cabaret series at downtown nightclub Filter 14, and the New Lost City 2004 New Year's Eve extravaganza at the Lunatarium in DUMBO, Brooklyn. He is currently writer/director for The Saint At Large events, including the annual Black Party at Roseland.

His international and regional credits include:

The Tooth of Crime (New Grove Theatre, London)
Endgame (Actor's Workshop, Boston)
American Buffalo (14th Street Playhouse, Atlanta)
Twelfth Night (Alliance Theater, Atlanta)
The Comedy of Errors (Theatre Emory, Atlanta)

For many years, Kimmel has been an associate with The Wooster Group, working in a variety of roles ranging from producing the Performing Garage Visiting and Emerging Artist Series to helping secure funding for special projects. He is Assistant Director of the Group's rep production To You, The Birdie! (PHEDRE), and has toured to more than 20 cities internationally with the show including London, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Istanbul.

Kimmel is a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program in Directing, a member of the Lincoln Center Director's Lab, and recipient of awards from the NEH, the Princess Grace Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts.