
About Kimberly Skoda
Kimberly is a traveler who just spent a year calling Budapest home. Writer of the play, The After Party, which premiered at the Manhattan International Theater Festival and won Audience Favorite. Her one-act play, Gray, premiered with Duende Theater Group, and her full-length, Busy Women, had a staged reading in Atlanta with the Young Playwrights Festival. She is now based in Brooklyn, stumbling through dance classes and writing about her travels.

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