Kim Wimmer MAPP

PROFILE Educator, actor, singer, recording artist, speaker. Promoting positive education and talent-based service in the performing arts.

EDUCATION The University of Pennsylvania 2016 Master of Applied Positive Psychology

Birmingham-Southern College 1994 BA in Musical Theatre, Psychology Minor, cum laude

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Young Americans College for the Performing Arts, Corona, CA 2010-Current Theatre Department Chair Created, designed and implemented department curriculum. Subjects taught - Introduction to Acting, Scene and Character Development, Advanced Acting, Musical Theatre, Director’s Series, Survey of Theatre

Lead Singer, The Band Clockwork 2003-2009 In residence, Bellagio, Las Vegas 2005- 2008 In residence, Mirage, Las Vegas 2003- 2005 Performed at hundreds of corporate, private, and public events.

Professional Actor since 1993 Starring credits in feature film, network television, regional and off-broadway theatre. Series on Comedy Central. Other venues/networks include Yale Rep, IRT, Disney, CBS, FOX, USA Member of SAG-AFTRA, EQUITY. (Full performance resume and media available upon request)

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Acting Instructor, Lesly Kahn Studios, Los Angeles, CA 2003-2005; 2008-2010 Taught intensive and ongoing acting classes and privately coached clients for televi-sion and film.

Walt Disney Company Full-time contract performer, Walt Disney World, Florida,1993-1995, Tokyo Dis-neyland, Japan 1995-1996, and part time, Disneyland, CA 2001-2004. Lead singer, actor, dancer, emcee for various shows and bands.

Miss Alabama 1992 Miss America Quality of Life Award Winner 1992 (for community service)

RELATED EXPERIENCE Created and administered tutoring programs for inner city and homeless children. Leads resilience and well-being workshops for actors and other performing artists. Certified NLP Practitioner; Mindful Self-Compassion: Core Skills Training; slated presenter for International Positive Psychology Association World Congress 2017, and Western Positive Psychology Association 2017 Conference.

MISSION STATEMENT By integrating positive education and service learning into arts education and con-servatory training, we can foster resilience and bolster well-being among perform-ing artists.

I created a model called The Resilience Compass, which uses positive psychology to better prepare actors to bounce back and take ownership of their passion and purpose. There is, however, a surprise intersection of acting technique and positive psychology practices, and that overlap isn’t limited to its relevance to actors. Acting technique through a positive psychology lens may also help non-actors to unlock their creativity and proactively develop their own characters—their best selves. 

I believe the arts matter and so do the artists. My intention is to start a well-being movement in the performing arts community that will ripple into the greater com-munity—connecting us as humans, uniting us through art. When artists thrive, the world flourishes.

MASTER’S THESIS The Resilience Compass: How Mindset, Skills-Development, Self-Compassion, Ser-vice, and Community Empower Actors to Bounce Back, Reclaim Their Passion, and Live Their Purpose http://repository.upenn.edu/mapp_capstone/106/