V.E. KIMBERLIN

BIOGRAPHY

V. E. Kimberlin is an American playwright based primarily in New York City. Born in Washington, DC, 1959, to a military family, most of her formative years were spent in the South.

Kimberlin is a 1982 graduate of New York City's National Shakespeare Conservatory, a classical training program for actors. She studied directly under its late noted founders Philip Meister and Mario Siletti, as well as with other respected teachers such as Robert Francis Perillo, Peter Lobdell and James Tripp. While Kimberlin returns to her acting roots on occasion, she mostly focuses on channeling the principles and disciplines gleaned from her NSC "actors boot camp" training into her plays and other dramatic writing. Her plays and series of comedy sketches have been professionally produced in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, London and, most recently, Chicago.

Thin Walls, a collection of four one-act plays, was published in 2002 in e-book form through Hollow Hills, a U.K.-based e-publishing company. Some of her plays are also available for downloading (at no charge) at PlaysontheNet.

An active proponent of diverse/non-traditional casting, Kimberlin is also committed to creating strong roles for women of all ages and, particularly, for actors (male and female) ages 40-plus through senior. As well, she strives to keep her casts small (usually two-to-five characters, no more than eight) and to make her plays accessible to companies or theaters with low-end budgets and where minimal set and production requirements are major considerations.

(Not the playwright.)

©vekimberlin 2005