Kimberly Colburn

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Kimberly Colburn

    Associate Literary Director
    South Coast Repertory
    Costa Mesa,  CA

Kimberly Colburn is currently the Associate Literary Director and Pacific Playwrights Festival Coordinator at SCR. She’s also serving as the dramaturg for the Dialogue/Dialogos project, wherein playwright Jose Cruz Gonzalez will spend two years creating a theatrical piece inspired by the stories of the nearby Santa Ana community. Other favorite dramaturgical projects at SCR include the world premieres of A Wrinkle in Time (adapted for the stage by John Glore) and the musical Jane of the Jungle (by Karen Zacarias and music by Deborah Wicks LaPuma), productions of Pride and Prejudice, Elemeno Pea, In the Next Room or the vibrator play and many readings including Zoe Kazan’s Trudy and Max in Love and Melissa Ross’ You Are Here. She has worked as dramaturg, performer, director and producer with companies including Los Angeles Opera, Sledgehammer Theatre, Oregon Contemporary Theatre (formerly Lord Leebrick Theatre), Critical Mass Ensemble, Native Voices at the Autry, the Chance Theater and Artists at Play and she co-founded the Full Frontal Artists Collective in San Diego. She received her bachelor’s in Theatre from University of California, Riverside and her masters in Performing Arts Administration from the University of Oregon.