Kymani Kahill

DirectorWorks Graduate 2021

Kymani (She/Her/Theirs) is a Twin-Cities based generative theater artist, singer, dancer and musician. She has spent over a decade honing her skills as a generative artist through her work with Regional Twin Cities Theaters, as well as public schools and programs for young artists, as a director, music director, composer, and choreographer. Theatre credits include productions with The Children’s Theatre Company (Iron Ring, Tommy De Paola’s Mother Goose, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Treasure Island), Chanhassen Dinner Theatre (Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat), The Great American History Theatre (1968: The Year that Rocked the World, Snapshots: Life in the City), Ten Thousand Things Theatre (Once on this Island, The Seven) and Theatre Latte Da (A Christmas Carol Peterson, Evita). Kymani has also worked as director, music director, composer, and choreographer. Kymani toured throughout the Twin Cities and out-state Minnesota teaching residencies and leading workshops in theater creation. Kymani is a recipient of the 2020 Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board and is currently working on her one person show “Peaches & Pickles: Perspective Is Suspect”, which explores the intersections of Race, Gender & Sexuality, Spirituality and Racial Profiling.

Kymani’s DirectorWorks Project