Bio
Kimberly Rose is a comedic and dramatic storyteller, actor, voice actor, playwright and performer. She is an author and former journalist whose work has been published on stage, on screen, on air, in podcasts, online, in print and live. Her articles and memoirs have been published in books, newspapers, radio and magazines, nationally and internationally.
Three of her one-act plays have recently been performed in the Boston area. “Butter” a sketch comedy/one-act play was performed to a standing-room-only crowd at the Burren in Somerville, Massachusetts in fall 2018. “Red Shoes” was produced as part of Barstool Stories dinner theatre in September 2017 and “Social Disaster” was performed as part of Play In a Day community theatre in April 2017. Short stories have been published in The Miami Herald, on the Moth Radio Hour and online at Wraparound South, Smith Magazine, Medium and Yahoo!. Kim was a contributing writer for the South Florida Sun Sentinel’s XS, writing feature stories on alternative energy, art and a controversial restaurant review. She was also a regular contributor to The Superyachts annual book, Boat International magazine and PostMortem, the first weekly South Beach newspaper.
Her short story “Photo Finish” is included in the book The Moment (Harper Perennial ) and was featured on NPR’s Talk of the Nation and The Moth Radio Hour. She is currently adapting her comedy show, “Butter” to film. Her for-profit job is as an international naming strategist for start-ups and global conglomerates @ www.NameGirl.com. Kim is the proud mom of three, socially active citizens.
Kim was born on South Beach and grew up in Coconut Grove/Miami. She spent many summers in Switzerland, where her mom was born, speaking French, her first language, and developing a love for all things literary. (Her mom spoke five languages, her grandmother, seven.) At the same time, growing up in the multicultural, multilingual melting pot of Miami exposed her to a multitude of Latinx and global cultures and languages which have influenced her work and life.
Photo credit: Russ Mezikofsky
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Kimberly Rose is a comedic and dramatic storyteller, actor, voice actor, playwright and performer. She is an author and former journalist whose work has been published in every medium from on stage to on air. Her articles and memoirs have been published in books, newspapers, radio and magazines, nationally and internationally. Three of her one-act plays were performed BC-19 (before Covid-19) in the Boston metro area and she is currently working on a podcast about growing up wild in Miami. She has published creative nonfiction, short stories, and feature articles for newspapers, magazines and books locally and internationally for over 20 years. Some places she has published stories include The Miami Herald, The South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Wraparound South, Medium, and Yahoo! ). Her acclaimed short story, “Photo Finish” is included in the book The Moment (Harper Perennial), was featured on NPR’s Talk of the Nation and heard on Moth Radio Hour & podcast in 2020.
