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KIVENGI PRODUCTIONS |
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BIO |
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Kim, a true maritimer, was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia and pursued vocal training with Mary Dee Girrior, Halifax and Shawn Elizabeth, Ottawa. She has performed in various professional choirs such as The Armdale Chorus and The Aeolian Singers and local dinner theatre. Her career studies included a diploma in Architectural Drafting and in 1980 was the first female draftsperson hired by Nova Scotia Power Corporation. |
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Home |
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Thirteen years ago, the winds of change blew her sails of fortune in a new direction, to Russell, Ontario, 30 minutes south of Ottawa, where she settled with her husband and three children. During her sojourn in this close knit farming community, Kim was involved with RAPA, a local theatre group and she penned, directed and produced her first interactive murder mystery dinner theatre, Shake, Throttle and Roll, as a church fundraiser. To sooth her musical sweet tooth, Kim performed with PMS, a womens quartet and co-founded a musical comedy duo, Two Tunes, both which performed locally and in Ottawa. Kim also performed in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas The Mikado, Iolanthe, and H.M.S. Pinafore, as Buttercup, with the Savoy Society of Ottawa. |
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Kim, a fairy wood nymph, in G&S, Iolanthe, with Savoy Society, in Ottawa. |
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Kim went on to co-found a SATB quartet, Midlife Harmony, which recorded a cd entitled, May the Music Never End. During this time she returned to academia after a twenty year hiatus and graduated from Algonquin College, Ottawa, with an Honors Diploma in Dramatic Scriptwriting. Kim also worked as an editor and writer with a community newspaper, The Prescott-Russell News. |
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Kim, back row, in her PMS days in Russell, Ontario. |
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Two years ago the Giles clan relocated to the big T.O. and are presently living in Waterdown. Currently, Kim performs regularly with BigTime Murder Productions, www.bigtimemurder.com, an interactive murder mystery dinner theatre company headquartered in Ottawa and Toronto. She can be viewed playing multiple personalities such as Punch n'Judi Rockwell or Sandi Beach in Silence of the Hams most Saturday nights in Toronto at Vineyards Restaurant at John and King. |
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Kim, centre, as Sandi Beach, in Silence of the Hams, of Bigtime Murder Productions, at Vineyards Restaurant in Toronto. |
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Kim, on her day off, performing with BigTime Murder Productions, Ottawa, at Maho Beach Resort in St. Maartens. |
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