Board Member
Known for his innovation and risk-taking in musical theater, Mr. Kimbell has received the Elliot Norton Award and the New England Theatre Conference Award for Outstanding Achievement in The American Theatre, Salem State College’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Moss Hart Award for his musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol.
In 2006, Mr. Kimbell accepted the Kenneth A. MacDonald Award for Theatre Excellence presented by the Independent Reviewers of New England, and was honored by the Town of Danvers with the 2007 Drum Major of Justice Award for his leadership in promoting tolerance. Mr. Kimbell has also been the recipient of the Bay State Banner Award for employing artists of color both onstage and off, and received the Actors’ Equity Association’s Rosetta LeNoire Award for the NSMT’s outstanding commitment to non-traditional casting. Not surprisingly, he has been involved in the development of 60 new musicals and premieres.
As a lifetime supporter of the theater community, Mr. Kimbell currently serves on the Board of the National Music Theatre Network, concentrating on the New York Music Theatre Festival. For the past 25 years, he was President and Treasurer of the Council of Stock Theaters, and has served as a panelist and evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Hampshire Commission on the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Maine State Council on the Arts and Humanities, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Cultural Arts Council of Houston.
Mr. Kimbell is currently the Executive Producer, along with NYC’s Urban Stages, of Langston in Harlem, opening Off-Broadway in Spring of 2010.
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