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Callie Kimball

CALLIE KIMBALL

  
Nationality:    USA
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Callie Kimball is a writer, actor, director, and teaching artist. Honors she has received for her work include a MacDowell Fellowship, a grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, and the academy of American Poets Prize. Her play SaFeWORD was a semifinalist at the O'Neill Festival, and her poem "Cocteau in Gold" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has received play commissions from Washington Shakespeare Company, Phoenix Theatre, and the In Series. as an actor, director, movement consultant, and teaching artist, she has worked at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, Washington Shakespeare Company, Cherry Red Productions, the DC Fringe Festival, Theater J, Maryland Shakespeare Festival, and the Shakespeare Theatre Company. She founded and ran DC Dollies & the Rocket Bitch Revue from '06 to '07--they produced plays, held readings, and raised $4,000 for the DC Rape Crisis Center by producing eve ensler's the Vagina Monologues. Kimball is an actors' equity association Membership Candidate, a member of Screen actors Guild, and a Regional Representative of Dramatists Guild.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Dirty Heart         Impresario, The         Jupiter Zoom         Lucrece         Lulu Fabulous         May 39Th         Nutshell         Safeword         Sofonisba         Tragedy Of Mary Lou Skatonda, The

Dirty Heart

Synopsis:
a Thanksgiving comedy stuffed with practical jokes, 9/11 conspiracy theories, and a murder confession.

Notes:
110 minutes. This play was written with the generous support of the MacDowell Colony. It had A reading At Woolly Mammoth theatre in November 2006.

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Genre:
Dark Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Impresario, The

Synopsis:
a newly translated adaptation of Mozart's operetta the IMPReSaRIO.

Notes:
25 minutes. Commissioned by the In Series.

1st Produced:
Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington Dc    2008

Organisations:
the In Series

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Genre:
Operetta

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Jupiter Zoom

Synopsis:
Family breeds contempt in this comedy that puts a chiropractor, a baked snowboarder, two sets of sisters, and a guy named after a planet in an upper NW home for three whole days.

Notes:
110 minutes. This play was produced As An equity Showcase.

1st Produced:
Glaser-Luchs Theatre At The National Conservatory Of Dramatic Arts    2006

Organisations:
DC DOLLIeS & the ROCKeT BITCH ReVUe

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Lucrece

Synopsis:
This stage adaptation of "the Rape of Lucrece" lends a fresh perspective to the centuries-old story of Lucretia, a noblewoman who killed herself after she was raped. "Callie Kimball's skill at matching the Bard's couplets with her own is impressive, as is her facility for delineating ancient politics, but it's her literary wit that sets Rape of Lucrece apart." Washington City Paper

Notes:
75 minutes. Commissioned by Washington Shakespeare Company

1st Produced:
Washington Shakespeare Company, Washington Dc    2007

Organisations:
Washington Shakespeare Company

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Genre:
Verse Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Lulu Fabulous

Synopsis:
Lulu runs away to the tiny village where her great-great-grandmother grew up.

Notes:
90 minutes. Commissioned by Phoenix theatre.

1st Produced:
Phoenix Theatre, Washington Dc.    2005

Organisations:
Phoenix Theatre

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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May 39Th

Synopsis:
Meet Sam and Louisa the morning after their first date. a thousand years from now, dating in the city will still blow chunks. "[Kimball] combines futuristic fantasy with a plus ca change philosophy, her play adding up to a hopeful vision tinged with dark humor."

Notes:
45 minutes. This play was produced As An equity Showcase.

1st Produced:
Touchstone Gallery At The Dc Fringe Festival.    2006

Organisations:
DC DOLLIeS & the ROCKeT BITCH ReVUe

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Genre:
Dark Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Nutshell

Synopsis:
the staff of a DC non-profit are headed to Kenya on a mission to save the elephants. Meanwhile, the elephants are making their own preparations. Based on TS eliot's "the Waste Land."

Notes:
75 minutes. This play was produced As An equity Showcase.

1st Produced:
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Dc Fringe Festival, Washington Dc    2007

Organisations:
DC Dollies & the Rocket Bitch Revue

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Music:
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Genre:
Dark Comedy/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  12            Other:  11

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Safeword

Synopsis:
SaFeWORD lays bare the secrets and struggles of two suburban DC families and asks us why is it so much easier to get what we need from strangers?

Notes:
120 minutes. DC DOLLIeS & the ROCKeT BITCH ReVUe produced A reading of this play At the Kennedy Center in September of 2006. This play was A semi-finalist At the O'Neill Playwrights Conference.

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Genre:
Drama/Dark Comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Sofonisba

Synopsis:
On the eve Of Her 18th Birthday, artist Sofonisba anguissola Faces the Challenges Of Her Painting Instructor Moving away, a Father eager To Have Her Wed, and a Pesky Pet. Undeterred By the Limitations Of Gender, She Uses Her Talent To Become a Spanish Court Painter For the Royal Court and eventually Finds Love. Supported By a Grant From the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation.

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Washington Shakespeare Company

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Tragedy Of Mary Lou Skatonda, The

Synopsis:
a futuristic comedy about murder, genocide, and mother-daughter angst.

Notes:
75 minutes. Constellation theatre produced A reading of this At the Kennedy Center in Washington DC in September of 2007.

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Genre:
Drama/Dark Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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