Award-Winning Writer
of plays, novels, poetry, spoken word, and revolutionary prose
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The coffee table that held my favorite books at four-years-old is in my living room right now. It’s older than I am. I remember to rushing to this table as a child to read the new books family members bought me. I fell, heart first, for words and writing then. Happily, I’ve never recovered.
Rising Voices Project
By A Thread
Anastasis Theatre Co. - Omaha, NE
Community Readings
November 11 and November 13, 2024
Synopsis: A year in the lives of 7 women in a Nebraska state prison is filled with horrific challenges and surprising joys as they struggle to maintain their humanity in the face of nearly insurmountable odds.
Salon Reading Series
Frozen Charlottes
Angels Theatre Company - Lincoln, NE
Public Readings
November 3 and 6, 2024
Synopsis: Four women fear for their safety during a 1958 killing spree in Nebraska. Whe their city is ordered into lockdown, the women are trapped in a house together where they grapple with issues of identiy, race, neurodiversity and power.
Selected for the "Sharing Our Stories" Project
Miss Bessie's Blues Factory
The Rose Theatre - 2001 Farnam St. - Omaha, NE
Public Reading (for Youth Theatre)
August 29, 2024
Synopsis: When a group of tweenagers are venture outside to work on a "Notice Your World" school assignment, they explore more than their world through the lessons of an excentric neighbor and her love for the blues.
public play reading: frozen charlotes
Details
Great Plains Theatre Commons presents a workshop presentation of Frozen Charlottes!
Thursday, November 16 @ 7:30pm
Friday, November 17 @ 7:30pm
Four women fear for their safety during a 1958 killing spree in Nebraska. When their city is ordered into lockdown, the women are trapped in a house together where they grapple with issues of identity, race, neurodiversity and power, discovering that the danger inside the home may be far greater than the one outside of it.
All public performances are at Yates Illuminates, 3260 Davenport St.
Written by Kim Louise
Directed by TammyRa'
Stage Manager: Asia Nared
Cast: Addie Barnhart, Denise Chapman, Echelle Childers, Verla Collier, George Dippold, Allana Pommier
Dramaturg: Bryan Moore
Designer: Erica Maholmes
Audio Engineer: Craig Marsh/Pink Giraffe
Front of House: Alyssa Gonzalez
Additional thanks: Dave Osmundsen
Poster Design: @qmetalc
Past production: Black Women Rebel
Live Audio Drama - Benson Theatre - March 29 - April 2, 2023
the passion
from my pen
3 Stage Productions (Union for Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Community College Summer Play Tour, Mexican American Historical Society of the Midlands)
11 Novels – Black Entertainment Television (BET) Books
1 Novel - Kensington Publishing (NY)
1 Novel - Harlequin Enterprises (NY)
4 Novellas - BET Books
1 Novella - Genesis Press
1 Short Story - Chicken Soup for the African American Soul
1 Poem - Role Call Anthology - Third World Press
Writer's Digest Article "What Fiction Writers Can Learn from Playwrights" July/August 2022
the day jobs
professional career
- Course Designer for a Community College
- Adjunct Instructor for a Community College (English and Creative Writing)
- Personal Development Instructor for a Community College (How to Tell a Story and Worldbuilding, Immersive Writing for Creative Writers in Fiction)
- Assistant Director, Balloon School: A Found Play (Metro Community College)
- Former Director of New-African Writers Workshop
- Playwright for an Immersive Theatre Project (commissioned work)
- Former Resident Playwright in the Great Plains Theatre Commons (2020 - 2022)
- Former stage and screen reviewer, current fiction reviewer for The Good Life Review Literary Journal
the education
insatiable learner
MFA - Stage and Screen - University of Nebraska
MS - Adult Learning, Training, and Performance
Bachelor of Liberal Arts - Major: Journalism; Minors: Creative Writing & Black Studies
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Check Out My Work
The first time my work was published, I was 14. But my fate was set long before that. During speaking engagements, I tell people: When I was born, the doctor pulled me out of my mother’s womb and said, “It’s a girl; and she’s got a typewriter with her.” I truly believe my double-helix looks like a spiral of typewriter