Kimberly Patterson spent more than a decade in New York City working in Off and Off-Off Broadway theaters in almost every capacity possible. Her plays have appeared in the New York International Fringe Festival, the Orlando Fringe Festival, and the New York Musical Theater Festival; her musical, Oedipus for Kids!, is published by Samuel French and has been produced around the U.S. and in Canada. Kimberly has been a participating 1MPF playwright in South Florida since 2012. Her most recent musical, Douchenozzle, premiered at the 2017 Orlando International Theatre Festival. Kimberly holds an M.F.A. in playwriting from Hollins and a Master’s degree from NYU’s Gallatin School with a concentration in performance studies, dramatic writing, and technical theatre. Kimberly is a member of the Dramatists Guild.