| Kim Russell |
Award Winning Playwright, One Woman Show
Performer and Workshop Leader
Performer and Workshop Leader
Live from Las Vegas!
Brief background
Author: Tuskegee Love Letters - national staged play
about The Tuskegee Airmen; Double Down -
documentary on South Africa. Asheba's Story - a play for
children.
Award winning program: Theater presentation of
Sojourner Truth.
Education: Graduate of Chapman University, KIIS School
of Broadcasting, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Director & Producer: Remembering The Freedoms
Festival, Las Vegas; Program Director for the
International House of Blues Foundation.
Visit to the White House, Washington, DC, invited by
President George W. Bush.
TOURS
National Convention Engagement: National Organization
for Women.
University performances: University of New Haven; Cal
State Channel Islands, University of Nevada Reno.
WORKSHOPS
I Told You So!
Black African American Folk Art
ONE WOMAN SHOW
Freed slave, feminist national speaker, Sojourner Truth
LECTURE
The Incurable Disease of Writing - Examining a writer's
motivation using works of Toni Morrison
Kim is a past recipient of a Nevada Arts Council
Fellowship for theater and she is a Nevada
Humanities Scholar. In 2005, she was selected
for a Jerome Fellowship and residency in
Minnesota. She was selected to represent
Nevada in the Kennedy Center Artists
as Educators program where she trained
to provide educators tools to integrate the
arts in the classroom. In 2003, she was
an invited guest to the White House in
recognition of her contributions to the
advancement and understanding of
African American history. Kim is a graduate
of Chapman University in Communications (Media and
Drama).
Her performance is captured on video by Women of
Diversity Productions.
Author: Tuskegee Love Letters - national staged play
about The Tuskegee Airmen; Double Down -
documentary on South Africa. Asheba's Story - a play for
children.
Award winning program: Theater presentation of
Sojourner Truth.
Education: Graduate of Chapman University, KIIS School
of Broadcasting, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Director & Producer: Remembering The Freedoms
Festival, Las Vegas; Program Director for the
International House of Blues Foundation.
Visit to the White House, Washington, DC, invited by
President George W. Bush.
TOURS
National Convention Engagement: National Organization
for Women.
University performances: University of New Haven; Cal
State Channel Islands, University of Nevada Reno.
WORKSHOPS
I Told You So!
Black African American Folk Art
ONE WOMAN SHOW
Freed slave, feminist national speaker, Sojourner Truth
LECTURE
The Incurable Disease of Writing - Examining a writer's
motivation using works of Toni Morrison
Kim is a past recipient of a Nevada Arts Council
Fellowship for theater and she is a Nevada
Humanities Scholar. In 2005, she was selected
for a Jerome Fellowship and residency in
Minnesota. She was selected to represent
Nevada in the Kennedy Center Artists
as Educators program where she trained
to provide educators tools to integrate the
arts in the classroom. In 2003, she was
an invited guest to the White House in
recognition of her contributions to the
advancement and understanding of
African American history. Kim is a graduate
of Chapman University in Communications (Media and
Drama).
Her performance is captured on video by Women of
Diversity Productions.
- Looking for motivation, see below: I Told you So, African
American Folk Art, or The Incurable Disease of Writing
Kim Russell as
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth
Author, playwright, Knighten, Kim Russell, Sojourner Truth, Asheba's story, Kim Knighten
