Jon Kimbell    
                         
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   CURRENT BOARD AND THEATER
        INDUSTRY AFFILIATIONS:


•    New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) aka National Music Theatre Network, New York City, NY.  Vice Chair of Board. NYMF develops and produces new musicals.

•    SenovvA, Los Angeles, CA. Board of Advisors of international production and theater company.

•    The Jimmy Awards, Nederlander Organization, New York City, NY. Advisory Board for national high school music theater awards.

•    National Alliance of Musical Theatre (NAMT). One of the original 35 founding producers, former Board member and current Associate Member.



Montego Glover in North Shore Music Theatre's
production of "Memphis"
- photo by Paul Liden


•    Seacoast Repertory Theatre, Portsmouth, NH. Consulting in reorganization.

•    Theatre By The Sea, Portsmouth, NH. Co-Chair, Board of Trustees. Gives small grants for local theater organizations.

•    Bow Street Trust, Portsmouth, NH. Board of Directors. Controls property for Seacoast Rep.

•    Pontine, Portsmouth, NH. Advisory Board for mime/theater company.

•    Speakeasy Theatre Company, Boston MA. Board of Visitors.

•    Artistic Director Emeritus of North Shore Music Theatre, Beverly, MA.

•    Actors' Equity Association (AEA). Member.


NATIONAL AND STATE ARTS AFFILIATIONS:

•    Evaluator and panelist with the National Endowment for the Arts Opera, Musical Theater, Access, Challenge Grant and Theater programs

•    New England Foundation for the Arts, evaluator

•    League of Resident Theaters (LORT), former Board member

•    U.S. Department of the Interior, consultant

•    Panelist and evaluator for the New Hampshire Commission on the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Maine State Council on the Arts and Humanities; the Ohio Arts Council and the Cultural Arts Council of Houston

•    President and Treasurer of the Council of Stock Theaters for 23 years.


THEATRE PRODUCTIONS:

•    A CHRISTMAS CAROL, A Musical Ghost Story. Book Writer and director of this classic holiday musical.

•    LANGSTON IN HARLEM, Producer for off Broadway production, September 2009.

THEATER AND COMMUNITY AWARDS:

•    Elliot Norton Award for 25 years of Excellence in Theatre

•    New England Theatre Conference Award for Outstanding Achievement in The American Theatre

•    Salem State College’s Lifetime Achievement Award

•    Moss Hart Award for his musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol

•    Kenneth A MacDonald Award for Theatre Excellence presented by the Independent Reviewers of New England

•    Town of Danvers, MA 2007 Drum Major of Justice Award for leadership in promoting tolerance

•    Bay State Banner Award for employing artists of color both onstage

•    Actors’ Equity Association’s Rosetta LeNoire Award in 2003 for NSMT’s outstanding commitment to non-traditional casting.
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