Haddon Kime


Haddon Kime is an award-winning American theatre and film composer, lyricist, sound designer, and director. In the early to mid 2000s Kime was a frequent collaborator in the theatre scenes of Boston and New York City writing music and sound designs for plays and musicals produced by New Repertory Theatre, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Gloucester Stage and Speakeasy Stage among others.

Career

In 2013 he wrote the music and co-wrote the lyrics for the 2014 rock musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen." The musical opened to previews at San Jose Repertory Theatre on November 19, 2013 the same day as the Disney film "Frozen " which is based on the same source material. After a successful month long run, the musical earned a slot at the 2014 New York Musical Theatre Festival, where in addition to positive critical reviews, it won the Steele Spring Stage Rights Publishing Award as well as the award for Excellence in Overall Design, which Kime shared with co-sound designer Rick Lombardo, costume designer Frances Nelson McSherry and lighting/projection designer David Lee Cuthbert.
In 2015, Kime led an artistic team in Atlanta in writing an experimental and immersive musical adaptation of The Red Book by Carl Jung. The project was awarded a Reiser Artists Lab grant from the Alliance Theatre where a workshop production of the first 45 minutes of the show was produced in 2016.
In 2017, Kime collaborated with playwright and improv comic Travis Sharp and Dad's Garage Theatre Company on a parody musical entitled "Wicket: A Parody Musical," a comic satire of the film Return of the Jedi that, like the Broadway musical Wicked, is a popular story told from the perspective of a different character, in this case the Ewok who is first to meet Princess Leia.. "Wicket: A Parody Musical" was subsequently produced and performed in San Antonio, where it won the 2019 Regional Award for Best Musical from Broadway World.
In May 2020, Kime, in conjunction with Out of Hand Theater Company released a new original 10-minute-musical comedy about a self-care class that makes the move online during the Social distancing measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Kime wrote the book, music and lyrics as well as directed. Since the musical was conceived and written for, and rehearsed and performed on Zoom Video Communications software, Kime titled the production "Lag: A Zoomsical."

Education

Kime attended and graduated Berklee College of Music with a degree in film scoring

Awards