Kimberly MacLean Joined Company: 2006 BATS Coach Since: 2006 First Improv Class: 1994 at San Francisco State University Web Site: www.thesuperdupers.net, www.thelastlaughsf.com Myspace.com: http://www.myspace.com/kimolita   Contact: company@improv.org Kimberly MacLean has been a consistent presence in Bay Area theatre as an actress, director, singer, improviser, and instructor since moving here in 1991. She has trained and performed abroad (Europe, Japan, Korea) & the U.S. (Texas, New York, California). Though her incredibleness can be intimidating, she reminds her fans that she is just like them except super talented, overtly attractive, intellectually gifted, and wholeheartedly humble.

In addition to her ample work in more traditional & musical theater styles, she has performed as a member and guest artist of several local improv & sketch troupes, and appeared in film shorts & television pilots including "The Drink and How to Throw It", "ImprovSlam", "The Council", and "My Top 8" – the latter two with some familiar BATS faces. She was also a founding member of the improv, sketch, and short film phenomenon The Last Laugh, San Francisco.

In 2003, she co-founded and began working full time as the Director of The Super Dupers, an organization specializing in arts integration in the classroom (for example, using theatre to enhance Language Arts skills). Kimberly is a huge name on the elementary school circuit and rarely walks through a Chuck E. Cheese, Gymboree, mall, or amusement park without hearing the cry "Drama improv lady". She has worked in over 10 Bay Area districts as a teacher & teaching artist and is currently pursuing a Masters in Arts Integration and teaching credential.

Her love of teaching, passion for art in education, and instructional experience keep her busy developing & teaching improv, theater, & process drama classes for both her own organization and many others throughout the area including ArtReach & TheatreWorks.

Kimberly graduated Magna Cum Laude with her B.A. in Theatre Arts from San Francisco State University more years ago than she cares to admit.

Q&A With Kimberly MacLean

Favorite Formats: I like the longer formats, especially musicals and 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 dad’s Scottish. So, put all of those together and I ended up emulating 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 country, rockabilly, swing, jazz, punk, showtunes, hmmmm… I guess I like just about everything depending on my mood.

Favorite Theatre: Fires in the Mirror, Los Vendidos, Noises Off, Othello, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Taming of the Shrew, Tartuffe, The Producers, The Rocky Horror Show, The Tale of the Wicked Winter Witch