Artistic & Education Director
Kimberly Faith Hickman is a theatre producer, director and choreographer whose credits include Broadway, Off Broadway, national tours and regional theatre productions across the country. Focusing on new and existing work by contemporary writers, including both plays and musicals, her directing and choreography work has been praised by Broadwayworld.com, Backstage and other news publications as "verbally and visually bursting with ideas", "never is there a wasted beat, nuance or moment", "undeniably stunning", "impeccable", "deft", "inventive and impressive" and "fast paced, emotionally riddled work."
On Broadway, Kimberly has worked on productions that earned 19 Tony® Award nominations combined. Off-Broadway she has worked on productions at Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre Company, Atlantic Theatre Company, Women’s Project, Epic Theatre Ensemble, Theatre Row and PTP / NYC at Atlantic Stage 2, as well as terraNOVA Collective, Horse Trade Theatre Group, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, Tongue In Cheek Theater, Attic Theater Company, Origin Theatre Company, and Writopia Lab. She is also a co-founder of the New York based company, Bechdel Project, whose mission is to create work that passes the Bechdel test.
In June 2016, Kimberly served as the Artistic Director of Omaha Playhouse in Omaha, NE. During her tenure, Kimberly founded the Omaha Community Playhouse Henry Fonda Theatre Academy, a theatre education program teaching life skills through stage skills for youth and adults; created the Omaha Community Playhouse Directing Fellowship, a professional training program for early and mid-career stage directors; expanded audio described and American Sign Language accessible programming and began sensory friendly and Spanish translated programming for the Omaha metro community. In the wake of the Covid-19 shutdown, she produced three socially distanced, drive-in theatre events that followed health directives and made Omaha Playhouse the only theatre in the Omaha metro area that remained in production.
She began her tenure as Artistic & Education Director of Rave On Productions in 2021, where she also serves as the primary instructor for theatre and acting classes.