Kimberly Belflower is a playwright and educator originally from a small town in Appalachian Georgia. This is her Broadway debut, and she’s probably crying about it right now. Plays include JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN (2024 Huntington Theatre, 2022 Studio Theatre, 2019 Kilroys List, published by Broadway Licensing, Farm Theatre College Collaboration Project); LOST GIRL (2018 Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Kennedy Center Darrell Ayers National Playwriting Award, published by Concord Theatricals); and SAINT PIGTAIL (commissioned and developed by Studio Theatre, 2023 O’Neill Finalist). Kimberly has worked with South Coast Rep, Manhattan Theatre Club, Alliance Theatre, Ojai Playwrights Conference, among others. She was also a narrative lead at Meow Wolf, where she wrote a short film with original music by Beach House. Kimberly proudly holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and teaches playwriting at Emory University in Atlanta. For Gail.

Danya Taymor is a Tony and Obie Award-winning New York-based director. Recent direction includes the Broadway production of the Tony Award-winning musical The Outsiders, now playing at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. Broadway: Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s PASS OVER at the August Wilson Theatre. Off-Broadway and International: Will Arbery’s HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING (Playwrights Horizons, Callaway Award for Direction, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Lortel Outstanding Play) + EVANSTON SALT COSTS CLIMBING (New Group), Rachel Bonds’ JONAH (Roundabout), Samuel Beckett’s ENDGAME (Gate Theater, Dublin), Jeremy O. Harris’ DADDY (Almeida, London + New Group/Vineyard), Nassim Soleimanpour’s MR. K AND THE FLOWERS (Audible), Korde Arrington Tuttle’s GRAVEYARD SHIFT (Goodman Theatre), PASS OVER (Lincoln Center + Steppenwolf, Lortel Outstanding Play), Danai Gurira’s FAMILIAR (Steppenwolf), Martyna Majok’s QUEENS (Lincoln Center Theater), Justin Kuritzkes’ THE SENSUALITY PARTY (The New Group), Susan Soon-He Stanton’s CYGNUS (Women’s Project), Brian Watkins’ WYOMING (Lesser America) and MY DAUGHTER KEEPS OUR HAMMER (The Flea), and Sarah Gancher’s THE PLACE WE BUILT (The Flea). Translations include Alejandro Ricaño’s We Are Getting Better at Saying Goodbye, Luis Enrique Guitierrez Ortiz Monasterio’s I Hate Fucking Mexicans, and Ettore Scola’s Working on a Special Day.

Her production Antoinette Nwandu’s PASS OVER was filmed in collaboration with Spike Lee and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Now streaming on Amazon Prime.

Awards and fellowships include the Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity from Lincoln Center, Time Warner Directing Fellowship at Women’s Project, 2050 fellowship at New York Theatre Workshop, Van Lier Directing Fellowship, Gates Foundation Grant, Rough Draft Residency at the Drama League and the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. BA: Duke University.

Upcoming work includes Emmanuelle Mattana’s TROPHY BOYS at MCC in the summer of 2025 and the touring production of The Outsiders in the fall of 2025.