Biography of Kim Yaged

Kim Yaged is an award-winning playwright whose work has been performed throughout North America. She has written children's books for Random House, and her short stories and poetry have been included in anthologies published by Ballantine Books, Cleis Press and Arsenal Pulp Press. An excerpt of her one-person show Hypocrites & Strippers was recently published in Applause Books' The Best Women's Monologues of the Millennium. Hypocrites & Strippers was also a finalist in the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, included in the Fritz Blitz in San Diego, and part of Double X's festival in Baltimore celebrating women's theater and urban living. Kim's chamber opera www.love was showcased by the New York City Opera and subsequently performed in Ann Arbor, MI. This production won four Best of Awards, including Best Musical and Best Original Production. Kim's play Vessels was commissioned for the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust in conjunction with an exhibit by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Vessels was also performed at the Renberg Theatre in Hollywood and included in the Native Aliens Theatre Festival in New York. Kim's musical Leading Lady was part of Dixon Place's Festival "Warning: Not For Broadway" in New York. Her play Never Said was included in Unity Fest at the Bank Street Theatre in New York and the Wild Plum Theater Company's One-Act Festival in Cleveland. Playwrights' Arena produced a reading of her play S'lichot in Los Angeles. S'lichot was previously produced at the Trueblood Theatre in Ann Arbor and as part of the Resident Theatre Company's Playwright's Festival at Fullerton College in California. Other productions of her work include The University of Mishegoss at the ATHE Conference in Toronto and Fullerton College; Kim's Spot at The Performance Network in Ann Arbor; and HER at Bailiwick Theatre in Chicago and API Theatre in Kalamazoo, MI. Kim worked on Feature in 48 with film and television producer Jeff Goode, and there was a reading of her television pilot Jersey City at Sony Studios. She was a co-recipient of a grant from ArtServe, the State of Michigan Council for the Arts, as well as a recipient of the Kennedy Center's Meritorious Achievement Award for the Diego Rivera Theatre's production of her theatre/dance hybrid America. Unknown Theater in Los Angeles also did a reading of America. Kim's other honors include two Hopwood Awards, for her plays HER and Roomies, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender's "Community of Scholars" Fellowship, and the Center for Education of Women's Margaret Dow Towsley Award. Kim graduated from the University of Michigan with an MFA in Playwriting.