Kimberly “Kimi” del Busto Ramírez is an interdisciplinary teatrista with an M.F.A. in Playwriting and a Ph.D. in Theatre & Performance specializing in dramatic work related to the Operation Pedro Pan exodus that transported their mother, aunt, uncle, and 14,045 other Cuban children to the United States. Kimi's original plays explore persistent social and intergenerational conflicts associated with Latinx heritage, veganism, gender, and education. Their dramatic writing has been presented at venues including Breath of Fire Latina Theatre, Teatro Luna, Repertorio Español, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Teatro del Pueblo, WOW Café Theatre, Nuyorican Poets Café, Teatro IATI, Primary Stages, Drama Book Shop’s Arthur Saleen Theatre, Hippodrome State Theatre, Latin American Theatre Today Festival, Edward Albee’s Great Plains Theatre Conference, Maieutic Theatre/MT Works, Southeastern Theatre Conference, 21st Century Playwrights Festival, Morris-Jumel Mansion with People’s Theatre Project, Tribeca Performing Arts Center with America-in-Play, Martin E. Segal Theatre, the Spoon Theatre, and Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Published versions of Kimi’s plays and monologues can be found in Label Me Latina/o: Journal of Twentieth & Twenty-first Century Literary Production, Basta!: Latinas Write on Gender Violence (University of Nevada-Reno Latino Research Center), Collages & Bricolages Journal of International Writing, Mother/Daughter Monologues (International Centre of Women Playwrights Press) and We-Us: Monologues for Gender Minority Characters (Smith & Kraus). They are a Professor for the City University of New York, a current member of The Dramatists Guild, The Players NYC, Macondo Writers Workshop, and Speranza Theatre Company’s Women[+] Playwrights’ Circle, and serve as a critic for Talkin’ Broadway and on the voting committee of the Lucille Lortel Awards in recognition of excellence in Off-Broadway theatre. An incurably homesick Miami native, Kimi can also be found simulating subtropical environments on their unusual New York City patio in midtown Manhattan.