Kymberly Harris is a Director/Writer
and founder of Firsthand Films.
She directed the award-winning shorts Rose's Turn, that was at Cannes, FAITH winner of Best Short NYCIFF, and Now and Never, winner of The Rising Star Award at CineGearExpo at Paramount Studios.
Her feature film I Heard Sarah was honored with the Robert Rodriguez Best Indie Auteur Filmmaker of the Year Award at Bare Bones International Music and Film Festival. Distributed by Good Deed Entertainment, it’s now streaming on all major platforms.
She has directed several plays in NYC and LA (Rogue Machine Theatre, Theatre for the New City, Pacific Resident Theatre, Marilyn Monroe Theatre).
A published and produced playwright, several plays written by Kymberly have been produced in NYC (Cherry Lane, la mamma, Harold Clurman Theatre). Her play FAITH is the only drama published in the new anthology, Proofread or Die!, featuring works by colleagues and friends of the late David Foster Wallace. She assisted James Ponsoldt and Jason Segel on the film The End of the Tour.
Some acting credits include originating the role of Holly in Eric Simonson's Bang the Drum Slowly opposite Tracy Letts, and the workshop of Terrence McNally's It’s Only a Play opposite Thomas Sadoski, Josh Radnor, and Lisa Kudrow.
Kymberly's interested in stories that personally deal with how we are formed by our families and by society, and how that effects our ability to connect to each other. Regardless of the scope or genre of the world of the story, her work is going to examine this thread of human relationship and consider the specific psychology of each character.
Themes of interest: family systems, art and industry, addiction, codependency, and recovery, female empowerment, socio-political, gender, the process of healing.
Acting Coach: Select private clients (including Emmy winners, Oscar nominees).
Member: AEA, AFTRA, SAG, Dramatists Guild, Women in Film, Alliance of Women Directors, Free the Work, Film Independent, Women in Motion Pictures
Voter: Spirit Awards, Ovation Committee
BA: Knox College in French
MA: Illinois State University in Theatre
Double MFA: The Actors Studio Drama School at the New School, Acting and Playwriting.
Reps: Zero Gravity
Legal: Ramo Law
