Theatre Kingston - Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Theatre Kingston is run by local and international theatre professionals with unique experience and training. If you would like to get in contact with any member of our staff, please call 613-544-2021, or email us at theatrekingston@hotmail.com.

Artistic Director – Kim Renders

Kim Renders has worked as a writer, director, designer and actor in theatres across Canada for almost thirty years. She is a founding member of Canada’s oldest professional feminist theatre company, Nightwood Theatre and was part of the original brat pack that formed the Theatre Centre in Toronto.

She graduated from the University of Ottawa in 1977 with a B.A. in Drama. She has taught theatre courses at the University of Guelph, where she was awarded the 2006 Teaching Excellence Award, and the University of Waterloo. She is currently teaching courses in acting and theatre for young audiences at Queen’s University, where she holds a tenure-track position in the Department of Drama.

Some of her acting credits include: Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) at the Belfry Theatre in Victoria and at the Manitoba Theatre Centre in Winnipeg, Divided We Stand at the Canadian Stage Company, Desire for Necessary Angel, List of Lights at L.S.P.U. Hall in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Flowers at the Grand Theatre, London , and Building Jerusalem with Volcano in Toronto (Dora Mavor Moore Awards nomination).

She has performed her one-woman show, Motherhood, Madness and the Shape of the Universe at festivals and conferences across Canada and in Britain, as well as performed an adapted version for C.B.C Radio.

Her directing credits include stints with Theatre Direct, Factory Theatre, Tarragon Theatre and Nightwood Theatre in Toronto, the Universities of Guelph and Waterloo and at the Grand Theatre in London, Ont. For several years she was Co-Artistic Director for the Centre Wellington Children’s Theatre based in Fergus and for her own environmental performance company – Theatre Out&About.

Kim is a member of Canadian Actor’s Equity Association, ACTRA, Playwrights Guild of Canada, Theatre Ontario and the Theatre Ontario Talent Bank. In 1995 she was awarded an Honorary Membership by the Association for Canadian Theatre Research in recognition of distinguished service to theatre in Canada. In 2006 she was the recipient of the Maggie Bassett Award, which is presented annually to an individual who, over a number of years, has made a sustained and significant contribution to the development of theatre in Ontario.