Board Member
Known for his innovation and risk-taking in professional 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 North Shore Music Theatre’s outstanding commitment to non-traditional casting.
Not surprisingly, he has been involved in the development of 60 new musicals including Memphis, winner of four 2010 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, currently in its 2nd year on Broadway.
Mr. Kimbell serves as Vice Chair of the Board for the New York Music Theatre Festival. For 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.
Recent productions he has directed include Our Town and Man of La Mancha for Seacoast Rep, his adaptation of A Christmas Carol, now in its 21st year, for North Shore Music Theatre and The Wizard of Oz for Prescott Park Arts Festival. Kimbell is Executive Producer of Langston in Harlem, an original musical that opened Off-Broadway in 2010 to rave reviews and won four 2010 Audelco Awards, including Best Musical. Audelco Awards celebrate excellence in Black Theater.
