Kimberly M. Wetherell made her cinematic debut with the award-winning short romantic comedy, Ménage à trois (2005), the story of a boy… a girl… and her cell phone. She followed it up with another award-winning short film, Why We Wax (2008), a comedic documentary about the hair… “down there,” which is distributed by Seventh Art Releasing in North America, by Planète France/Canal Plus in France and all its territories, and a clip is available to watch on Al Gore’s CurrentTV. In 2008, she was the Associate Producer on the upcoming feature film Today’s Special (2010).

She is currently in development on her debut feature film.

Kimberly began her career first as an actor and a singer, but soon discovered her calling as a director, with a particular fondness for Opera. At 26 years old, she made her directing debut at the Houston Grand Opera with a production of L’elisir d’amore, and since then, her career has taken her to esteemed opera houses around the world, including L’Opéra de Paris, Le Théâtre de Genève, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Seattle Opera, San Diego Opera, the Santa Fe Opera and the National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Theatre in Taipei, Taiwan, in both directorial and producing capacities. She has worked with such renowned talents as Placido Domingo, Renée Fleming, Bryn Terfel and Susan Graham, and has assisted legendary stage directors Colin Graham, Lotfi Mansouri and Francesca Zambello.

Her films have played in major film festivals such as the International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA), the International Film Festival of Rotterdam, the St. Louis Film Festival, The Hamptons Film Festival and many others, including New York City, Indianapolis, Portland, San Francisco, Palm Springs, Phoenix, Sedona, Los Angeles and Washington D.C.

In 2006, Ménage à trois was chosen as part of the Inaugural Women in Film & Television International (WIFTI) Women’s Day simultaneous screening series around the world (with 2005 Oscar-winning short film, Wasp) and in 2009, Why We Wax was selected to screen as part of American Cinematheque’s 4th Annual Focus on Female Filmmakers Series. Her most recent operatic work is with The Opera Company of Brooklyn; for whom she created a 40-minute, young-audience version of Mozart's The Magic Flute, which is currently on tour throughout New York City public schools.

Additionally, Kimberly is a frequent contributor (and former Arts & Culture Editor) for the online literary magazine, The Nervous Breakdown. Her writing has been published by The Nervous Breakdown, The Printed Blog and SMITH Magazine.

Kimberly holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts from The Theatre School at DePaul University and originally hails from Clearwater, FL.

She lives in Brooklyn, NY.