Kim Stauffer Secretary (she/her) is an Actor, Director, Educator, and Communication Consultant.  Her first experience with WAM was as an actor in their production of Emilie: La Marquise Du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight.  Her life and artist path have continually found her at the intersection of Arts and Activism – working with WAM resonates.  As an actor her work has taken her to New York Classical Theatre, Barrington Stage Company, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Chester Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre Company (DC), Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, and beyond. She serves as Head of Acting in the University at Albany’s Theatre Program and is passionate about creating collaborative, educational spaces fueled by experiential and interdisciplinary learning. With UAlbany’s School of Social Welfare she co-founded the Simulation Project, bringing together student Actors and Social Workers for practice simulations.  As a practitioner of Listening and Presence, she is a Communication Consultant who uses acting techniques to teach skills in embodied communication and behavioral and cultural awareness to groups and individuals. She is a member of Actors Equity Association, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and the Association of Theatre Movement Educators. She graduated with BAs in Theatre and Social Work from Eastern Mennonite University (and finds deep joy combining the two!), and earned her MFA in Acting from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. She lives in the woods on the side of a little mountain, and can usually be found upcycling “junk,” lake swimming, and gardening, which she practices as an act of Resistance. www.KimStauffer.com

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