Kimberly Peterson Braun earned her Bachelors of Music in Vocal Arts at the University of Southern California, where she studied opera and musical theater while also dabbling in jazz, choral music, studio singing, pop, country, and cabaret. She moved to New York post-college, where she independently released an album of her own music: Growing Up. She performed throughout New York, including at The Bitter End in Greenwich Village.
Upon moving back to California in 2008, Kim wrote and performed an autobiographical one-woman musical, A Woman Grows in Brooklyn. Kim has performed the show to much acclaim, winning top awards at the Marin Fringe Festival and garnering a nomination from the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle.
In 2012 Kim received her Master of Arts in Theater Arts from San Jose State University, where she taught acting to undergraduate students and delved into scholarly research. Kim was thrilled to receive a Brinnegar Charitable Foundation scholarship and a Graduate Equity Fellowship from San Jose State, and her master’s thesis investigates the interview-based theater group The Civilians (download the published thesis here). After graduate school, Kimberly launched Citizen Workshops, a haven for performing artists in Los Angeles.
Kimberly currently works as a musical theater teaching artist at A.C.T.'s Young Conservatory in San Francisco, and at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. She and her husband live in the East Bay with their son, daughter, and enthusiastic Boston Terrier.
Upon moving back to California in 2008, Kim wrote and performed an autobiographical one-woman musical, A Woman Grows in Brooklyn. Kim has performed the show to much acclaim, winning top awards at the Marin Fringe Festival and garnering a nomination from the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle.
In 2012 Kim received her Master of Arts in Theater Arts from San Jose State University, where she taught acting to undergraduate students and delved into scholarly research. Kim was thrilled to receive a Brinnegar Charitable Foundation scholarship and a Graduate Equity Fellowship from San Jose State, and her master’s thesis investigates the interview-based theater group The Civilians (download the published thesis here). After graduate school, Kimberly launched Citizen Workshops, a haven for performing artists in Los Angeles.
Kimberly currently works as a musical theater teaching artist at A.C.T.'s Young Conservatory in San Francisco, and at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. She and her husband live in the East Bay with their son, daughter, and enthusiastic Boston Terrier.
