Kim Renders

Kim Renders is a Canadian writer, director, actor and designer,[1] and is a founding member of Nightwood Theatre, the oldest professional feminist theatre company in Canada.[2] Renders was born January 14, 1944 and graduated from University of Ottawa in 1977.[1] She currently lives in Kingston, Ontario, and serves as the Artistic Director of Theatre Kingston, manages the TYA troupe Barefoot Players, and is a faculty member of the Queens University Drama Department.[3]

She has directed works at Theatre Direct, Factory Theatre, Tarragon Theatre and Nightwood Theatre in Toronto.[1]

Her one-woman show Motherhood Madness and the Shape of the Universe has been performed across Canada and Britain, and has been adapted for CBC Radio; and her other one-woman show Waiting for Michelangelo opened at the Baby Grand Studio in the Grand Theatre Kingston in April 2009.[1]

She was awarded an Honorary Membership by the Association of Canadian Theatre Research for distinguished service to theatre in Canada in 1995.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Kim Renders". Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia. AU Press. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  2. ↑ Scott, Shelley (2010). Nightwood Theatre: A Woman's Work is Always Done. Edmonton: AU Press.
  3. ↑ "Kim Renders". Playwrights Guild of Canada. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
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