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At Kimberly Vaughn Performance Studio (KVPS) classes and one-on-one coaching
sessions encompass musical performance audition technique, and monologue and scene
character and text analysis and interpretation. Kimberly conducts master classes with
industry leaders such as: Adam Guettel (The Light in the Piazza, Floyd Collins), Scott
Schwartz (Jane Eyre, Golda’s Balcony,) Charles Strouse (Annie, Golden Boy), Jeanine
Tesori (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Caroline, or Change), Alaine Alldaffer, Casting
Director with Playwrights Horizons (Grey Gardens, I Am My Own Wife, Falsettos), and
former Broadway producer Randall Wreghitt (Little Women, Metamorphoses, The Beauty
Queen of Lennane). She also coaches privately for stage, film and cabaret. Her clients
work in all venues.
Kimberly is on the faculty of the renowned Circle in the Square Theatre School, an
adjunct professor at Pace University, NYFA and has taught acting and musical theatre
classes at the legendary Warren Robertson Acting Studio in New York. Additionally,
Kimberly offers Master Classes to Musical Theatre and Drama Departments across the
country. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Speech and Theatre from Northwestern
University.
Kimberly directed Edward J. Moore’s Obie and Drama Desk Award winning play
The Sea Horse at The New Theatre of Harvard Square in Cambridge. Several seasons ago
she directed Ronald G. Paolillo’s play The Lost Boy for Shotgun Productions in New
York. Subsequently, in association with The Lost Boy LLC, and Shotgun Productions,
she co-produced and directed its world premiere at The Helen Hayes Theatre in Nyack,
NY and at The Queens Theatre in the Park. She co-directed Sondheim’s Saturday Night
with Ted Mann at Circle in the Square Theatre School. Kimberly has worked extensively
on the development of Caligula, the Musical, by Eric Svejcar, book writer and
lyricist/composer. Caligula was voted audience favorite at The New York Musical
Theatre Festival 2004. Kimberly directed the world premiere of Mel Weiser's play Cry
Tiger at The Phoenix Little Theatre and will continue her collaboration with Mel and Joni
Weiser on their latest play, A Tiny Piece of Land, which premiered at Pico Playhouse in
Los Angeles. A Broadway production is being considered.
Kimberly has worked collaboratively with several authors on the development of their
plays and musicals, among them The Lost Boy, by Ronald G. Paolillo, which she also co-
produced and directed regionally, Caligula, the Musical, by Eric Svejcar, book writer and
lyricist/composer, Worm Day, by Matthew Calhoun, and Lord Tom, by Stanley Jay
Gelber, (composer, lyricist, and co-book writer), with whom Kimberly is co-re-writing
the libretto.
Kimberly served as an Associate Producer of the twice Tony-Award nominated
Broadway musical play Marlene starring Sian Phillips. Prior to that, under the banner of
Angels of the Arts, she helped develop the Broadway musical Swinging on a Star,
from its theatrical success at The Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut where it won
rave notices, to its nomination for Tony’s Best Musical Award. Other projects include
Hauptman at the Cherry Lane Theatre, starring Tony-Award winner Denis O’Hare, and
The Cover of Life directed by Pete Masterson, (The Best Little Whore House in Texas) at
the American Place Theatre. She co-produced Four Women and a Waitress, starring
former Oscar nominee Marthe Keller, at The Arc Light Theatre. Most recently, Kimberly
co-produced the staged reading of Bill Russell’s newly revised Elegies, for Angels, Punks
and Raging Queens at The Abingdon Theatre. A limited Broadway run is planned.
Kimberly made her Broadway debut starring as Constance Wilde in the
musical Dear Oscar, followed by star packages including The Member of the Wedding
with Ethel Waters, Harvey with Shirley Booth and Tom Poston, Applause with Dorothy
Collins and She Loves Me with Julius LaRosa. Other leading roles, commercials,
industrials and television appearances followed. Most recently, Kimberly performed in Bill
Russell’s Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens in New York. Kimberly has
trained with Uta Hagen, Warren Robertson, Austin Pendleton and Wynn Handman.
Ms. Vaughn is a member of The League of Professional Theatre Women (former Board
Member), The Broadway League, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, The
American Association of University Women, Actors Equity, Screen Actors Guild, and the
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
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