Kimberly Akimbo

2023 Tony Award winner for Best Musical!

NEW JERSEY, 1999. Kimberly is about to turn sixteen and has recently moved with her family to a new town in suburban New Jersey. Suffering from a disease that causes her to age four and a half times faster than her high school peers, surrounded by a dysfunctional family (and possible felony charges), Kimberly is also navigating her first teenage crush. Ever the optimist, Kimberly is determined to find happiness against all odds and embark on a great adventure.

David Lindsey-Abaire is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, lyricist and librettist. His play Good People premiered on Broadway, and was awarded the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play, The Horton Foote Prize, The Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, and two Tony nominations. His play Rabbit Hole received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, five Tony nominations, and the Spirit of America Award. David also wrote the book and lyrics for Shrek the Musical (Jeanine Tesori, composer), which was nominated for eight Tonys, four Oliviers, a Grammy, and earned David the Kleban Prize as America’s most promising musical theatre lyricist. David’s other plays include Ripcord, Fuddy Meers, Kimberly Akimbo, Wonder of the World and A Devil Inside, among others.

Jeanine Tesori is the composer of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Fun Home (lyrics, Lisa Krown) as well as four scores that have earned Tony nominations: Twelfth Night at Lincoln Center, Thoroughly Modern Millie (lyrics, Dick Scanlan), Caroline, or Change (lyrics, Tony Kushner), and Shrek the Musical (lyrics, David Lindsay-Abaire). Tesori is the most honored female composer in Broadway history, having won two Drama Desk Awards, two Obie Awards, the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical, and The New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award. She has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, for Fun Home and for Soft Power (book and lyrics by David Henry Hwang).