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Jayme Kilburn

Jayme Kilburn is the Founding Artistic Director of the Strand Theater Company in Baltimore City.

She is a graduate of the University of California Santa Barbara with a degree in Dramatic Art and Psychology. In 2014, Jayme completed an interdisciplinary master's degree in Humanities and Social Thought at NYU and is currently working towards her Ph.D. in Theatre Arts at Cornell University. Jayme has directed over thirty plays including Mr. Burns, a post-electric play by Anne Washburn, Real Women Have Curves by Josefina Lopez, In The Blood by Suzan Lori-Parks, The Glory of Living by Rebecca Gilman, One Flea Spare by Naomi Wallace, Anna Bella Eema by Lisa D'Amour, and That Pretty Pretty; or, the Rape Play by Sheila Callaghan. Jayme's full-length plays Ding! Or Bye Bye Dad and Garbage Kids received their world premiere productions at Venus Theatre in 2014 and 2016. Jayme has won three first-year writing seminar awards for her work as an instructor at Cornell University and was part of Cornell's NextGen Professors inaugural cohort. Jayme received a grant from Engaged Cornell and the Baltimore Office of Promotions and the Arts to establish her Women's Performance Workshop as a permanent program in Baltimore. Jayme's research focuses on feminist performance and is writing her dissertation on women stage directors.