At NYU I was encouraged to create, to be visionary. After graduation, I performed and produced in the East Village and this work coalesced with the downtown art explosion. Back then, every interest I had seemed peripheral - though not to me! Street fashion, green living, indie film, hip-hop, yoga, DIY, organics, and natural health are not only viable, they're big business. Now I'm an expert. To see from the edge all the way to center is illuminating. It's how things travel. And when they're authentic; they flourish and prosper, shaping trends and lifestyle.
Kimberly Flynn has starred and costarred in both Hollywood and independent fare including Striptease, Heat, Rhythm Thief, Revolution! and Pool Days.
She was a co-host alongside John Stewart on Comedy Central's Short Attention Span Theater.
Kimberly played Vicki LaMotta on HBO's Hardcore T.V. in the cult classic Raging Bullwinkle.
On television she guest starred in Murphy Brown and Chicago Hope.
As a stage actress she has worked with directors Irene Fornes, Anna Bogart, Tom O'Horgan, Linda Chapman and Kestutis Nakas as well as playwrights Sarah Schulman, Madeleine Olneck, Jacquelyn Reingold and Clark Gregg. She has performed with The Ridiculous Theater, Ridge Theater, and Naked Angels.
Kimberly originated the role of Georgia in Irene Fornes play Terra Incognita which she performed in both Italy's Dionysia Festival and Padua Hills in Los Angeles.
Under Ms. Fornes direction she originated two roles in Manuel Pereiras Garcia's It Is/It Is Not at Theater for the New City.
For La Mama's 30th Anniversary production of Futz, Ellen Stewart cast Kimberly in the role of Anne Fox under Tom O'Horgan's direction and co-starring Penny Arcade alongside many original cast members.
Kimberly performed her first solo show at the Pyramid Club in 1985 and continued from there in ever changing guises at PS 122, La Mama, Theater for the New City, No Shame at The Public Theater, 8BC, Darinka, ABC No Rio and many other beloved revolutionary clubs and theaters that no longer exist.
Kimberly has spent the last 15 years traveling to India and throughout the world studying and teaching yoga.
She has practiced yoga and natural health for nearly 30 years and for ten years ran her own yoga school in Los Angeles where she also worked as a yoga consultant in film and television.
Big hair, a fake tan, comic timing, well-placed sequins, and a love of disco financed her first trip to India in 1995. In other words...Striptease.