Kim Yaged

Kim Yaged is an award-winning playwright and photographer with extensive experience in film and television. She was a recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Meritorious Achievement Award and a co-recipient of a grant from ArtServe, the State of Michigan Council for the Arts. Her chamber opera www.love was showcased by the New York City Opera, and her play vessels was commissioned for the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust in conjunction with an exhibit by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Kim's one-woman show Hypocrites & Strippers was a finalist in the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and her play America won the Audience Award at the Downtown Urban Theater Festival in New York. Kim was a head writer for Ricky is Famous, produced by Jeff Goode Entertainment. There were staged readings of her television pilot Jersey City at Sony Studios and the Stella Adler Theatre in Los Angeles. Her stories and poetry have been published by Random House, Cleis Press, Ballantine Books, Applause, and Arsenal Pulp Press.