Classes, workshops, rehearsals and events are led by Kimbirdlee, along with her creative team of professional actors, musicians, composers, writers and teaching artists. The outstanding creative team has over 10 years of experience with drama, specifically musical theatre, education and production of performances.
Please contact us at kimbirdlee@gmail.com for costs and more information
for the program/s you are interested in. THANK YOU!!!
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BIOS:
Kimbirdlee Fadner graduated with honors from Mills College in Music: Vocal Performance and Dance, where she founded of the Millismas Opera Club. She continued her training in acting, voice, musical theatre and dance at the American Conservatory Theatre (ACT-SF) in San Francisco. Kimbirdlee embraces the opportunity to develop and promote arts education and share her love for the arts with children and people of all ages. She worked for several years with Berkeley Playhouse as a professional actor and teaching artist. In 2014, she founded “Superstars”, a drama program for children, at Kon Gen International Preschool in which she created original music, stories, art and choreography. She now offers this program as the “PLAYMAKERS PRESCHOOL DRAMA PROGRAM” and the “SUPERSTARS DRAMA PROGRAM”. Kimbirdlee also serves as a director/music director/teaching artist throughout NYC, including Main Street Theatre & Dance Alliance, Queens Theatre, American Dance & Drama, in the NYC Public School System, and through private lessons. It is her mission to encourage everyone to follow their dreams and she strives to instill her belief that everyone is an inspired creative being!
Kimbirdlee founded Common Man Musicals (CMM) with her husband, Jonathan Fadner. CMM’s mission is to promote new musical theatre. They are partnered with Main Street Theatre & Dance Alliance and produce musicals and cabarets through the year. Stage credits include Made in China (59E59, NYC), Enjoy the Ride (National Asian Artists Project, NYC), Working (SF-ACT), The Tempest (Marin Shakes), Berkeley Playhouse (Main Stage actor & featured aerial dancer), and cabaret performances at 54-Below, Sardi’s, NYU & MSTDA. She’s also lead singer in the band DeLaMuse, as well as Artist-In-Residence for PECB who tours the midwest with a Pops-style concert series.
Kimbirdlee also specializes in a modern version of Chinese Brush Painting, depicting dynamic works that draw inspiration from Asian mythology, symbolism, spirituality and nature. She paints with watercolor on handmade rice paper. Her work has been shown nationwide.
Email: kimbirdlee@gmail.com
Jonathan Fadner is a composer, arranger, music director, teacher, and rock'n'roller who grew up in Southern California. He is a teaching artist that specializes in helping groups of any size, both in the classroom and privately, write their own theater pieces and music. He has a music degree with honors from UC Berkeley, and a Masters of Fine Arts from NYU Tisch in Musical Theater Writing. His work has been produced by Barrington Stage Company, National Asian Artists Project (NYC), Main Street Theater and Dance Alliance, 23 Elephants, and many other companies. His songs have been heard in such venues as 54 below, Don't Tell Mamma's, Sardi's, The Duplex, and other cabaret spots in New York City. His new musicals "The Unspeakable Act" won 2016 Best of Fringe in SF. His new musical "Northanger Abbey" is currently being produced by Washington DC theatre company and Common Man Musicals. He has had his classical music performed at several colleges, choral groups, and choruses. Jonathan's arrangements and orchestrations have been heard at San Francisco Playhouse, Berkeley Playhouse, MSTDA, and several other venues. Jonathan also teaches piano, guitar, songwriting, composition, and is a freelance music director. Jonathan gives all the credit for everything he does to his loving wife Kim, whom he runs the theater company Common Man Musicals, and whom without, nothing could get done.
