Kimmy is an award winning performer, director, writer, and producer in New York City. She was named Best Musical Act 2004 by Time Out NY, she was nominated for an Emerging Comic of New York for Best Musical Act, and she was a semi-finalist in the Andy Kaufman Awards. Kimmy holds a BFA from Syracuse University, she has also trained with Chicago City Limits, Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre, and Second City. She additionally worked closely Kirsten Ames (HBO, Aspen Comedy Festival) for many years, developing solo shows and has since directed, written and produced many highly acclaimed solo shows. Those include Negin Farsad’s Bootleg Islam (NY International Fringe Festival 2004), My Pony’s in the Garage (NY International Fringe Festival 2005), the multimedia project Mothers of Invention (2006), Well Connected, and Tales from the Big House (Fresh Fruit Festival 2006).

She currently performs and teaches improv comedy with Chicago City Limits, New York’s longest running comedy revue, which has made appearances on Fuse and Sirius Radio. Kimmy also teaches and performs at the People’s Improv Theatre. She is currently involved in Michael Counts’ most recent global arts endeavor, the Yellow Arrow Project (yellowarrow.net). Kimmy produced “Unconventional Humor” in the Imagine Festival ’04 during the Republican National Convention in New York City. As an actress, she has appeared in countless plays, industrials, films, voice overs, and commercials including MTV, Trojan, AT&T, Comedy Central, and Dunkin Donuts! As a writer, Kimmy freelances with the Oxygen Network, and will be in the upcoming book, The Complete Idiots Guide to Jokes, published by Penguin Books.