Welcome to The "For the Makers" Podcast where we interview artists on their journeys, inspirations, and processes and encourage you, the makers, to listen well and tell stories.
Today's guest is Kimberly Yates. Kimberly Yates is a New York based actress. Some of her favorite projects include the LA premiere of The Mistakes Madeline Made by Elizabeth Meriweather, creator of New Girl, the New York Premiere of Fabuloso at the Irish Repertory Theatre, The Cherry Orchard playing opposite Jim Parsons, The Woolgatherer playing opposite Bradley Cooper, playing alongside Sue Galloway in the Wonder of the World and Criminal Minds', Kirsten Vangsness in the Inv:s:ble Play. She can be heard in tons of anime features including Evangelion, Gunsmith Cats and Read or Die for which she won the Dubbie Award for Best Voice Actress in a Leading Role. She’s the acting coach for clients including A$AP Rocky, Jack Whitehall and 2 time Emmy winner Tamara Braun. One of the founding members of the improv team High Status and their spinoff podcast called, High Tea. She gave a TedxTalk called Re-Learning Forgiveness. She graduated with a Masters of Sacred Theology from General Theological Seminary in May of 2022 and won the historic Seymour Prize for Extemporaneous Preaching. She has written the book Rivers of Life: A 40 day devotional, the film Relatively Speaking starring Jim Parsons, and was commissioned to write the short film “Kissing.” She has recently workshopped her first full length play: La Joie: A Play about Suffering. It is based on the Chagall painting named La Joie, so if the title is hard to pronounce blame it on him.
Kimberly's socials:
Website: Kimberly-yates.com
IG: @kimberlyyat
La Joie IG: @playlajoie
Ted Talk on YouTube
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Todd & Tina Gifford
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