Richard Kimmel
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Richard Kimmel is a New York-based theatre director, writer, and theatrical producer. He is 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.
He has created and directed live performances and special events such as "Pandora" (The Box), Jennifer Hudson's New York concert debut "One Night Only" (Hammerstein Ballroom), and "Schwarzwald" (Roseland). In 2007, "Schwarzwald" was also made into a feature film, written and directed by Kimmel— it is the first "movie you can dance to", set entirely to music and shown in nightclubs. Following premieres in New York (NewFest) and Los Angeles (OutFest Platinum Selection), the film recently screened in Paris, Amsterdam, and Montreal.
Kimmel's other New York directing and producing credits include: Puss (The Performing Garage), Pleasuredome I and II (Combustive Arts), Witches MacBeth (HERE, Angel Orensanz, WAH Center) and Three Sisters (28th Street Theater), The Secret Agent" (Dactyl). 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.
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) and 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.
