GUEST BIO

Kim Weild is an award-winning theater director, co-creator of The Apothetae Residency at The Public Theater, and Chair of the John Wells Directing Program at Carnegie Mellon University. A Drama Desk Award nominee for Unique Theatrical Event, recipient of the N.Y. Innovative Theater Award for Outstanding Performance Art Production, the Eliot Norton Award, two IRNE Awards, and two AUDELCO Awards. She has extensive experience with Shakespeare and new work development, most notably as director of the widely acclaimed play American Moor. Her company, Our Voices, has received commissions from NY Highline, including After Sunset an ASL/Spoken experience that brought poetry to visual life, and HOW THE I BECOMES THE WE in collaboration with PS347, the ASL and English Lower School. She developed and premiered Charles Mee's soot and spit, a N.Y. Time's Critics Pick musical about the life of American deaf outsider artist James Castle. Weild brings decades of collaborating with Disabled artists and directing in bilingual performance environments (ASL and English). Upcoming: the world premiere of L M Feldman’s Another Kind of Silence at City Theater Company in Pittsburgh. www.kimweild.com