Kimberley Rampersad
Panelist: Facing Backlash
Kimberley Rampersad is theatre maker who has made a living thus far as an actor, dancer, choreographer, director, and teacher.
Kimberley made her UK debut in 2024 at the Royal Shakespeare Company directing and choreographing their production of The Red Shoes by Nancy Harris.
She has been featured twice in the New York Times for directing a full-length production of Man and Superman by Bernard Shaw and directing and choreographing Chitra by Rabindranath Tagore.
In 2023 she directed on the main stages of the two largest repertory theatre companies in North America – King Lear at the Stratford Festival and The Amen Corner, by James Baldwin at the Shaw Festival.
Other directing credits include The Color Purple (Neptune, and Royal MTC/ Citadel), Intimate Apparel (WJT), How Black Mothers Say I Love You (GCTC), hang (with Philip Akin) (Obsidian); and choreography credits include Matilda (Royal MTC/ Citadel/ Arts Club), Passing Strange (Musical Stage/Obsidian), and Seussical (YPT).
Kimberley is the Associate Artistic Director of the Shaw Festival in Niagara on-the-Lake, Ontario.