Kimberlee Garris is a creative director, brand strategist, and producer of dance and theatre. She has produced several podcasts for the Broadway Podcast Network, including Breaking Broadway with Kerry Butler and Singular Sensation, based on the New York Times best-selling book Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway.
Prior to working with Broadway Podcast Network, Kimberlee spent over a decade as Director of Entertainment for the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets, overseeing performances, marketing, and press for over one hundred dancers and performers each season at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center and at events throughout the world. In this role, she rebranded Nets’ entertainment for the team’s move to Brooklyn, creating the Brooklynettes and Brooklyn Nets Kids dance teams.
During her time with the Nets, Kimberlee directed the NBA’s first hip hop dance team composed entirely of dancers over age sixty – the Netsational Seniors. Their journey to center court stardom was captured in the documentary film Gotta Dance, directed and produced by Dori Berinstein, and their story was the inspiration behind the musical Half Time, directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell.
Kimberlee made her Broadway producing debut as co-producer of the Drama Desk Award-winning Best Musical, The Prom, directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw.
Kimberlee graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University with a degree in psychology and a concentration in Mind/Brain/Behavior. While at Harvard, she was three-year captain of the Harvard Crimson Dance Team and performed with the Harvard Ballet Company. Kimberlee also spent two seasons performing as a Knicks City Dancer at the world’s most famous arena, Madison Square Garden.