Kim H. Carrell

Welcome to my portfolio website. Here you will find information on my current projects; resumes for acting, directing, and fight choregraphy; details about coaching; and headshots and show photos. I can be reached by email at kim@kimcarrell.com.

Recent Work

Acting

Most recently, I appeared as the Jailor and the Old Shepherd in The Winter’s Tale, produced by UpstART/No Holds Bard in Ouray, CO.

I appeared in the title role of It’s A Fiasco’s staging of Macbeth in Cambridge, MA in June 2016. Previous roles with the company include Antiochus and Old Pericles in Pericles, Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Don Pedro in  Much Ado About Nothing.

Other recent performances include the role of Jacky Nickels in Boston Crime Scenes by Peter Charles Holm, staged at The Rockwell in Davis Square, Somerville MA; Uriah Heap in the 10-minute play Protocol by Brenda Foley as part of Boston Theater Marathon XIX, produced by Boston Playwrights’ Theatre; Heracles in J.A.S.O.N. by Pete Riesenberg (directed by Hatem Adell) at the Cantab Lounge in Cambridge, MA; and Bobbie Torbett in the staged reading of Scenes from the Big Picture by Owen McCafferty, produced by Solas Nua in Boston.

Directing

I directed the Praxis Stage production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Danehy Park and Longfellow Park in Cambridge MA in July 2019. I also directed their production of Julius Caesar in 2017.

I directed the Clark University Theatre department productions of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors in 2020, and Beowulf in 2021. I also directed the Clark University Players Society productions of Macbeth in Oct. 2020, Argonautika by Mary Zimmerman, in Dec. 2016, and Hart and Kaufman’s The Man Who Came To Dinner in April 2014.

I directed a staged reading of Thomas Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy as a joint fundraiser project of It’s a Fiasco and Theatre @ First in March, 2016.

I directed the ten-minute play Welcome to the Beekman Arms by Marisa Smith (sponsored by It’s A Fiasco) for the 2015 Boston Theater Marathon.

Fight Choreography

I have choreographed fights for Holy Cross productions of Hamlet, directed by Edward Isser; The Royal Family, directed by Steve Vineberg; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, directed by Scott Malia; and Little Women, directed by Meaghan Dieter; and Worcester State productions of Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) directed by Lisa Kramer, and Romeo and Juliet, directed by Adam Zahler. I also choreographed the fights for Praxis Stage’s productions of Julius Caesar and Hamlet, which I directed.

I choreographed fights for the New England College/Open Door Theatre production of Hamlet, directed by Glenn Stuart, in July 2016.

I continue to work as a Guest Artist for the Harvard Office of the Arts, teaching classes in unarmed stage combat and basic rapier combat. I have also choreographed fights for Harvard student productions of Little Women, The Pirates of Penzance, Lord of the Flies, and Acis and Galatea.

I also choreographed a fight for the Vine book trailers for The Rebel Pirate, the next book in Donna Thorland’s “Renegades of the Revolution” series. (See the trailer for the first book The Turncoat).

See the Fight Choreography page on this site for a complete resume and production photos.

Academia – Teaching, Research, and Conferences

I am a faculty member in Visual and Performing Arts at Worcester State University, and a lecturer in Theatre at Clark University. Previously, I have been an Assistant Professor in the Theatre Division at Boston Conservatory at Berklee and a lecturer at College of the Holy Cross.

In October 2018, I was a presenter for the Shakespearean Studies Seminar at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University. My paper was titled “‘To See Thee Fight, To See Thee Foign:’ Early Modern English Theatre and Dueling Culture.” I presented a revised version of this paper at Clark University in November 2019.

I was a panel member for a colloquy on Embedded Performance Studies at the Tenth Blackfriars Conference at the American Shakespeare Center in October, 2019.

I was a panel member for a colloquy on “Theory and Original Practices” at the Eighth Blackfriars Conference at the American Shakespeare Center in October, 2015.

I was chosen as a presenter for the inaugural symposium of the New Researchers Network of the Society for Theatre Research in London (UK) in May 2014. My paper was titled “‘My Assurance Bids Me Search’: Towards a New Understanding of ‘Original Practices'”.

I was chosen to present at the the Seventh Blackfriars Conference at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia in October 2013. I led a staging session to illustrate critical variants in the Quarto and First Folio texts of Richard III with particular emphasis on the “Lady Anne” scene.