Kimberly Ridgeway

Kimberly Ridgeway

Kimberly Ridgeway is a Bay Area based Playwright, Actor, Director, and Producer. Kimberly wrote, produced and directed the stage plays No More Secrets, Prospect Place, Heavy Burdens, The Drowning Pool, and The Gigolo Chronicles, and the short film “The Confession”. Kimberly has directed projects for Altarena Playhouse, Bay Area Drama Company, Dragon Productions Theatre Company, Ubuntu Theatre Project, Bay Area...
Kimberly Ridgeway is a Bay Area based Playwright, Actor, Director, and Producer. Kimberly wrote, produced and directed the stage plays No More Secrets, Prospect Place, Heavy Burdens, The Drowning Pool, and The Gigolo Chronicles, and the short film “The Confession”. Kimberly has directed projects for Altarena Playhouse, Bay Area Drama Company, Dragon Productions Theatre Company, Ubuntu Theatre Project, Bay Area Performing Arts Collective, Contra Costa Civic Theatre, SF Playhouse, Theatre Rhinoceros, Playwrights Center of San Francisco and TheatreFirst. Some of her favorite acting roles include Shelly in Colman Domingo's DOT, Mrs. Muller in Doubt, Coretta Scott King/Fannie Lou Hamer in All the Way, Duchess in Wonderland (World Premiere), Biz in The Human Ounce (World Premiere), and Camae in The Mountaintop for which she won the BroadwayWorld San Francisco Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play (Local).

Kimberly is the Director of Dragon Eggs a virtual, monthly, short play incubator for Dragon Productions Theatre Company.

Plays

  • The Drowning Pool by Kimberly Ridgeway
    Cast: 
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: drama, social issues + 4 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: drama, social issues, women, systematic racism, Systematic Rape, cultural and racial divides
    The Drowning Pool is a fictional tale inspired by Drekkingarhylur, “The Drowning Pool” in Þingvellir anglicized as Thingvellir, in Iceland. Set in the infamous “Golden Circle”, The Drowning Pool is a body of water that was used to execute women from 1602 – 1750 who were accused of fornicating, committing adultery, having illegitimate children and/or abandoning their children. These drownings were legal...
    The Drowning Pool is a fictional tale inspired by Drekkingarhylur, “The Drowning Pool” in Þingvellir anglicized as Thingvellir, in Iceland. Set in the infamous “Golden Circle”, The Drowning Pool is a body of water that was used to execute women from 1602 – 1750 who were accused of fornicating, committing adultery, having illegitimate children and/or abandoning their children. These drownings were legal punishment for their moral crimes
  • The Contract by Kimberly Ridgeway
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: short, comedy + 3 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: short, comedy, adult relationships, adult romantic comedy, anti-romantic comedy
    Tracy and Chris have entered into a "Sex-clusivity" Contract; until Chris threatens to breach.
  • Soul Mates by Kimberly Ridgeway
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: drama, love + 1 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: drama, love, romance
    Folk tales say that everyone has a soul mate. Some tales go on to state that you meet your soul mate again in the afterlife. However, how are soul mates determined? And what if the individual you expect to show up isn’t at all who arrives?
  • The Stop by Kimberly Ridgeway
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: African-American experience, Black women + 2 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: African-American experience, Black women, cop violence, fear
    MONOLOGUE: A Black Woman is pulled over by the cops. Her fears begin to consume her.
  • The Magician by Kimberly Ridgeway
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    Genre: drama
    Genre: drama
    MONOLOGUE: A woman reminisces about her absentee father.
  • Madam Gorgo by Kimberly Ridgeway
    Cast: 
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    Genre: comedy
    Genre: comedy
    Medusa, the misunderstood, chill, personal assistant to Athena, the uber-famous influencer, just wants the opportunity to have fun and be seen. Little did she know, a chance encounter and the jealous rage of an egotistical Goddess would change her life, and the lives of mankind, forever.
  • The Last Boardwalk by Kimberly Ridgeway
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: discussions of suicide, revelations + 1 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: discussions of suicide, revelations, Hope
    Amanda and Christopher have decided that the last day of their lives is tonight.