Kimberly Barger

Kimberly Barger

Kimberly Barger is a writer from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. A lover of all things theatre, she began writing for the theatre in 2018. Her plays are published with Pioneer Drama and Heartland Plays and have been performed internationally. She has completed the Core Curriculum program with Los Angeles-based New Musicals Inc. as a bookwriter, and she is also an alumna of the Commercial Theater Institute's...
Kimberly Barger is a writer from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. A lover of all things theatre, she began writing for the theatre in 2018. Her plays are published with Pioneer Drama and Heartland Plays and have been performed internationally. She has completed the Core Curriculum program with Los Angeles-based New Musicals Inc. as a bookwriter, and she is also an alumna of the Commercial Theater Institute's Producing Intensive in NYC and a member of The Dramatists Guild.

Kimberly holds a degree in Journalism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Prior to her work in theatre writing, she worked for over 10 years in public relations, writing everything from news releases to feature stories. She also created the blog Mommy's Always Write, where she was featured on popular parenting sites such as Scary Mommy and BabyCenter. She is currently working on her first novel, along with several other theatre projects.

When she isn't writing, Kimberly works as the Education Supervisor at Hershey Theatre, where she is responsible for planning the annual Hershey Theatre Apollo Awards program for high school theatre students in Central PA. She enjoys sharing her love of theatre with her husband and two sons.

Plays

  • With This Ring
    ONE-ACT COMEDY - (This play is published with Heartland Plays, Inc. For licensing requests, please visit heartlandplays.com.)

    An engagement ring retrieval mission gone wrong. It's been two weeks since Nate's fiancée, Claire, told him that things were over between them without any kind of explanation. Now she won't even talk to him. "With this Ring" follows Nate as he...
    ONE-ACT COMEDY - (This play is published with Heartland Plays, Inc. For licensing requests, please visit heartlandplays.com.)

    An engagement ring retrieval mission gone wrong. It's been two weeks since Nate's fiancée, Claire, told him that things were over between them without any kind of explanation. Now she won't even talk to him. "With this Ring" follows Nate as he sneaks into Claire's apartment with his best friend to try to find and reclaim the engagement ring. Mid-search, Claire returns to her apartment with a date, forcing Nate and his friend to hide in the bathroom, hearing every detail of the not-so-perfect date. Over the course of the evening, Nate learns why Claire broke off the engagement, while discovering some things about his best friend. He also finds the ring, but is the ring really what he wants?

    WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING:
    "This is a comic hit! From the first Instagram joke, to the feel-good conclusion, this play will work well for an audience. The stock characters work by staying just away from cliche, and the sentiment is honest without being cheesy. The rising action and tension used to support the plot and the comedy function simultaneously as a well-crafted piece. It has all the workings of a romantic comedy, and the motivations are established precisely with direct and clever conversation."
    ~Judge, 2018 Pittsburgh New Works Festival

    "I can't tell you how much I enjoyed working with your script. It really is delightful and there are still so many new ideas that come up even today watching it again. That is solid writing."
    ~Paul Foltz, director of the 2019 HACC New Works Festival

    "I really enjoyed your play. The humor was terrific and it just kept coming. Well written. No question as to why it was chosen to be presented."
    ~Tony M., attendee of the 2019 HACC New Works Festival
  • Replacing Linda (a virtual play for Zoom, videoconference, etc.)
    ONE-ACT VIRTUAL PLAY - (This play is published with Pioneer Drama Service. For licensing requests, please visit pioneerdrama.com.)

    Megan is a nervous mess, and her business partner Wade is in cookie withdrawal. Their best administrative assistant has quit, just as their company is expanding. Desperate to fill the big shoes left behind by Linda, Megan and Wade conduct a series of virtual...
    ONE-ACT VIRTUAL PLAY - (This play is published with Pioneer Drama Service. For licensing requests, please visit pioneerdrama.com.)

    Megan is a nervous mess, and her business partner Wade is in cookie withdrawal. Their best administrative assistant has quit, just as their company is expanding. Desperate to fill the big shoes left behind by Linda, Megan and Wade conduct a series of virtual interviews for her replacement, in front of the company's board of directors... the audience.

    The first two tech-savvy candidates seem to know their way around social media and technology just fine, but they don't seem big on work ethic, common sense, or common courtesy. A surprising third candidate could be the perfect fit, but this candidate presents her own set of challenges.

    Featuring fun, flaky characters and tons of outrageous office humor, community theaters will love this ideal virtual play staged in simple video interview format where the audience determines who gets the job.
  • Lucky Day
    TEN MINUTE PLAY - After winning over $17,000 at a Vegas casino, Matt and his wife Jessie make an impulsive stop for a psychic reading with Kasper. At first Kasper seems like the stereotypical psychic fraud, but by the end of the reading Matt and Jessie aren’t sure. Could he really have known some of the things he revealed? Or was he just a really good fraud? Oh yeah, and what happened to the $17,000?
  • Pizza Boy
    TEN MINUTE PLAY - With his job in jeopardy thanks to a stuck elevator, Pizza Boy turns to other passengers on the elevator to seek out new employment. But the kind of work they have to offer isn't quite something he's qualified to do.