Kim Powers is an author, playwright, and television writer known for the critically acclaimed memoir The History of Swimming, and has worked at ABC News for the past 23 years receiving two Emmys for his work at both Good Morning America and 20/20. In 2007, he was selected as one of the “Out 100” – Out Magazine’s top 100 most influential LGBTs in the country.

Upcoming projects include the new musical Hard Road to Heaven with a book by Willy Holtzman, and music and lyrics by Marty Dodson, David Spangler, and Jerry Taylor. Recent work includes Christina Anderson’s the ripple, the wave that carried me home (world premiere co-production Goodman Theatre and Berkeley Rep); The Mousetrap (Hartford Stage); Wait Until Dark (Dorset Theatre Festival); Karen Hartman’s Goldie, Max & Milk (Volt Festival 59e59); Endless Loop of Gratitude with New Neighborhood (New Ohio’s Ice Factory); Lucy Thurber’s Transfers for Audible, MCC, and New York Stage & Film (Off-Broadway Alliance Best New Play Award); When Harry Met Rehab (Chicago’s Greenhouse Theater, Jeff Nominated); Lover Beloved with Suzanne Vega and Duncan Sheik (Alley Theatre); God’s Ear and The Seagull (Juilliard); Kleptocracy by Kenneth Lin (Arena Stage); These Paper Bullets! by Rolin Jones with music by Billie Joe Armstrong (New Neighborhood, Atlantic, Geffen, Yale Rep – Critics Pick Time Out NY, Best Production and Adaptation LA Sage Awards, Time Out Los Angeles, Connecticut Critics Circle Award Best Production and Best Director). Chekhov’s Three Sisters (Studio Theatre / New Neighborhood); Shakespeare’s Much Ado adapted with Ken Lin (Cal Shakes); 3C by David Adjmi and Thurber’s Where We’re Born (Rattlestick); A Little Journey by Rachel Crothers (Mint - Drama Desk nomination Outstanding Revival of a Play); Jones’ The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (Atlantic and Yale Rep, Connecticut Critics Circle Award Outstanding Production of a Play). Jackson is the co-producing artistic director of New Neighborhood and currently teaches directing at Brooklyn College. MFA Directing Yale School of Drama. BFA Acting University of the Arts.