Meet our new Theater Coordinator!
Posted 8/16/2011 / Labels: Director's Desk, Theatre
Beth Koski, Executive Director, is pleased and excited to announce that Kimberly Godfrey of Perry has been hired to fill the position of Theater Coordinator.
Kim is a 2008 graduate of the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music where she received her Bachelor’s of Music in Music Theater. After receiving her degree, she lived in New York City and recently moved back to Ohio to teach and direct.
Kim is already a familiar face at the Arts Center. She first began acting on the Arts Center stage at the age of 16 when she played the role of "Urleen" in Footloose. Throughout her high school years, she was often seen on the Arts Center stages. Most recently she was seen as "Olive" in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and as "Lily" in The Secret Garden.
"I started performing on stage when I was 6 and haven't been able to get rid of the theatre bug since,” says Kim. “Growing up with a director and music teacher for a father, I was always around the theater. I loved going to my dad's rehearsals and absorbing every ounce of knowledge I could."
Her directing bug began while attending Perry High School. She was the music director for Rabbit Run Theatre’s kid’s summer camp and shortly after she began choreographing PHS’s show choir. She also ran the choreography at Baldwin-Wallace’s Music Theater Talented and Gifted Camp in the summer of 2007-- where she co-directed their final show.
More recently, Kim has performed in The Break-Up Notebook at the Beck Center, understudying in The Break-Up Notebook at the NAMT Festival at New World Stages in New York City, in The Phantom of the Opera, Side Show, and Company at Baldwin-Wallace College.
She directed and choreographed Hairspray in 2011 and Forbidden Broadway in 2010 for the GB Theatre season, High School Musical in 2009 and Bye Bye Birdie for Straw Hat Theater in 2010. She has also choreographed for Geneva, Lakeside, Perry, and Edgewood High Schools. For the past two years, she has also been teaching theater classes and individual musical theater lessons at the Arts Center.
"I am beyond thrilled to have this opportunity as the Theater Coordinator,” added Kim. “The Arts Center has been such a large part of my life and has truly helped shape who I am today and I can't wait to give back. I know I have some large shoes to fill, but I am ready with lots of ideas and a passion for the arts that will hopefully fill both of our theaters year round!"
"The Arts Center's staff is thrilled to have Kim join us," said Beth. "Her enthusiasm and high energy are very contagious as is evident in every show she directs. I am especially pleased that another of our youth who grew up and gained experience here at the Arts Center has elected to return and to share her talents and expertise on behalf of the AAC in our regional community."
Kim will begin her new position on July 1 but has already been working hard this spring and summer as director of “Footloose” which will play on the Straw Hat Theatre stage on July 8 - 10, 15 – 17, 22 – 24 and 28 – 30.
