Kimberly Reed
Filmmaker and writer Kimberly Reed was recently commissioned by a consortium of opera companies led by Santa Fe and San Francisco Opera to write Hometown to the World, premiering in 2020. She co-wrote the libretti for Today It Rains (Opera Parallèle) and Some Light Emerges (Houston Grand Opera) with Mark Campbell. Her song cycle “Fierce Grace: Jeannette Rankin” premiered at the Library of Congress in 2017. Reed’s written work is published in “The Moth,” a New York Times best-seller. Her documentary film Prodigal Sons won 14 awards and was released in theaters and broadcast worldwide. Her Sundance award-winning 2018 documentary Dark Money was promptly named by Vogue magazine as one of the 66 “Best Documentaries of All Time” and shortlisted for the Academy Awards.