Kimberly Ridgeway is a Bay Area based Director, Actor, Playwright and Producer. Kimberly wrote, produced and directed the stage plays Prospect Place, Heavy Burdens, No More Secrets, The Confession, The Gigolo Chronicles, and The Drowning Pool. Kimberly has directed projects for Altarena Playhouse, Contra Costa Civic Theatre, Dragon Productions Theatre Company, Ubuntu Theatre Project, Bay Area Performing Arts Collective, Bay Area Drama Company, SF Playhouse, Playwrights Center of San Francisco, SF Playground, Theatre Rhinoceros, 3Girls Theatre and TheatreFirst. Some of Kim’s notable acting roles include The Human Ounce (World Premiere), Wonderland (World Premiere), Doubt, All the Way, August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, Colman Domingo’s DOT, and Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop for which she won the BroadwayWorld San Francisco Award for Best Leading Actress in a Local Play. Kim will be performing in the World Premiere of Lauren Smerkanich’s The Dignity Circle, at Central Works Theatre (Berkeley, CA) in June 2023, and is directing Conner McPherson’s The Birds at Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA) in August 2023.