Kimberly MacLean



BATS Company member since: 2006
BATS Coach since: 2006
Website: http://www.thesuperdupers.net/
Facebook: Kimberly MacLean

Kimberly MacLean has been a consistent presence in Bay Area theatre as an actress, director, singer, improviser, and instructor since moving here in 1991. In addition to her ample work in more traditional & musical theater styles, her love of improv has brought her to work with several Bay Area troupes. She has also appeared in a handful of indie film shorts and television pilots (The Council, My Top 8). Kimberly was a founding member of the improv, sketch, and short film phenomenon The Last Laugh, San Francisco.

In 2003, she founded The Super Dupers, an organization revolutionizing arts integration in the classroom. Kimberly has been integral in the evolution of arts in the classroom, combining theatre and core curriculum in over 10 Bay Area districts. She recently accepted a full-time position teaching Literacy Through Performing Arts (a class she has created), at City Arts & Tech High School, a San Francisco charter high school. Frequently she escapes the under 18 sect through her instruction at BATS and private classes.

Kimberly's writing include the internet hit, Ho Babies, a satirical commentary on the current marketing of girls' toys and The Tale of the Wicked Winter Witch, a hit family show that combines musical, scripted, and improvised theatre.

Kimberly graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in Theatre Arts from San Francisco State University more years ago than she cares to admit. She is currently pursuing a Masters in Arts Integration/Urban Education and teaching credential.


Kimberly's Upcoming Classes:

7/9/2013 (7:00 PM) - Studio Scenework

Q & A with Kimberly MacLean

Favorite Formats: 

Long-Form, anything musical, I (Heart) John Hughes, Warp Speed

Funniest Moment on the BATS Stage: 

There is something spectacular that happens in every show, I couldn’t pick one!

Artistic Influences: 

Growing up, my very tolerant mother, allowed me to listen to hours of comedian’s records on my little Mickey Mouse record player, let me stay up late to watch Saturday Night Live, and endured countless productions of the New and Improved Kim Show. My grandmother introduced me to old films at the downtown Paramount . My influences include the likes of Lilly Tomlin, Gilda Radner, Betty White, Catherine O’Hara, Burns and Allen, Steve Martin, Katherine Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Carole Lombard, Lauren Bacall, Monty Python… I could go on and on.

Favorite Movies: 

It Happened One Night, Waiting for Guffman, My Man Godfrey, Desk Set, Some Like It Hot, The Americanization of Emily, What the Bleep Do We Know, Life is Beautiful, Chocolat, Monsters, Inc., The Jerk, Dumb and Dumber, again, I could go on and on…

Favorite Music: 

Old swing, jazz, punk, classical, rockabilly.

Favorite Theatre: 

Fires in the Mirror, Los Vendidos, Noises Off, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Tartuffe, The Producers, The Rocky Horror Show, The Tale of the Wicked Winter Witch (okay, I wrote this musical, but it is a favorite!)