AMERICAN THEATRE | The Subtext: Kimber Lee Isn’t Cagey About Her Process

Each month on The Subtext Brian speaks with a playwright about life, writing, and no matter itches we’re scratching.

On this episode Brian travels to the northern tip of Manhattan to talk with Kimber Lee, whose performs embrace Untitled F*ck M*ss S**gon Play, to the yellow home, tokyo fish story (South Coast Rep, TheatreWorks/Silicon Valley, Old Globe Theater), brownsville music (b-side for tray) (Humana Festival, LCT3/Lincoln Center, Long Wharf Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Moxie Theatre, Shotgun Players), and totally different phrases for a similar factor directed by Neel Keller (Center Theatre Group/Kirk Douglas Theatre). Kimber moved to New York City shortly after finishing graduate faculty on the University of Texas at Austin. There she linked with The Lark, which supported her for a few years as a PONY Fellow, giving her house to develop new work and construct a basis within the metropolis.

Indeed, Brian first met Kimber at The Lark’s Playwright Retreat in the summertime of 2014, which she recollects now as one of many busiest and traumatic intervals of her profession to this point. Then and within the years that adopted, Kimber felt overwhelmed and unable to navigate her work at a time when she felt obligated to complete new performs. 

Kimber and Brian discuss concepts and course of, much more than common on a typical episode of The Subtext, culminating in Brian sharing one of the inspiring moments he skilled within the theatre: It was throughout a manufacturing of Kimber’s play totally different phrases for a similar factor, directed by Neel Keller for the Kirk Douglas/CTG in L.A. Kimber shares how that memorable second got here to be.