NOW APPEARING...
In addition to my voiceover work, I am also a stage actor, singer and director.
So when I am not sitting in a small dark box talking,
I can often be found in a large dark box acting, singing, and dancing.
So when I am not sitting in a small dark box talking,
I can often be found in a large dark box acting, singing, and dancing.
PREVIOUS SHOWS
Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate" — Bag & Baggage
This comedy-drama is based on the movie by Calder Willingham & Buck Henry and from the novel by Charles Webb and adapted for the stage by Terry Johnson. It is directed by B&B’s Artistic Director, Scott Palmer, and runs
at the Venetian Theater, 253 E. Main St. in Hillsboro, through October 2nd.
For more information, www.bagnbaggage.org or call 503-345-9590.
“GORGEOUS & HILARIOUS!” OREGONIAN REVIEW
By Deborah Kennedy | For The Oregonian/OregonLive
...Colbourne shines and smolders as Mrs. Robinson, proving that Bancroft’s interpretation is not the only one. Colbourne’s Mrs. Robinson is embittered to the point of cruelty. Her vulnerability is kept hidden until the very end of the play, a strong choice on the part of Colbourne and director Scott Palmer...
“HILARIOUS AND SUPERB”- WESTSIDE THEATRE REVIEWS
By Tina Arth
As one expects with Bag & Baggage, the leads are superb...The real stunner is Kymberli Colbourne (Mrs. Robinson).
She is playfully seductive, at times a bit maudlin, yet she consistently projects a manipulative coldness
that renders her character thoroughly unlikeable even at the funniest moments.
We cannot help but feel a little sorry for Ben – he is simply no match for this version of Mrs. Robinson,
and when she is angry she approximates a destructive force of nature...
“FIRST RATE….GENIUS!” - DENNIS SPARKS
...Colbourne as Mrs. Robinson is colder, more calculate and nastier than Bancroft wasand she plays it
as if she is very aware of who she is and the destruction she is causing and just doesn’t give a damn.
At times, there is a spark of regret, perhaps humanity, in her gyrations but, like a fading ember, it is quickly doused.
She’s terrific...
Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate" — Bag & Baggage
This comedy-drama is based on the movie by Calder Willingham & Buck Henry and from the novel by Charles Webb and adapted for the stage by Terry Johnson. It is directed by B&B’s Artistic Director, Scott Palmer, and runs
at the Venetian Theater, 253 E. Main St. in Hillsboro, through October 2nd.
For more information, www.bagnbaggage.org or call 503-345-9590.
“GORGEOUS & HILARIOUS!” OREGONIAN REVIEW
By Deborah Kennedy | For The Oregonian/OregonLive
...Colbourne shines and smolders as Mrs. Robinson, proving that Bancroft’s interpretation is not the only one. Colbourne’s Mrs. Robinson is embittered to the point of cruelty. Her vulnerability is kept hidden until the very end of the play, a strong choice on the part of Colbourne and director Scott Palmer...
“HILARIOUS AND SUPERB”- WESTSIDE THEATRE REVIEWS
By Tina Arth
As one expects with Bag & Baggage, the leads are superb...The real stunner is Kymberli Colbourne (Mrs. Robinson).
She is playfully seductive, at times a bit maudlin, yet she consistently projects a manipulative coldness
that renders her character thoroughly unlikeable even at the funniest moments.
We cannot help but feel a little sorry for Ben – he is simply no match for this version of Mrs. Robinson,
and when she is angry she approximates a destructive force of nature...
“FIRST RATE….GENIUS!” - DENNIS SPARKS
...Colbourne as Mrs. Robinson is colder, more calculate and nastier than Bancroft wasand she plays it
as if she is very aware of who she is and the destruction she is causing and just doesn’t give a damn.
At times, there is a spark of regret, perhaps humanity, in her gyrations but, like a fading ember, it is quickly doused.
She’s terrific...
MAVIS in "Church Basement Ladies"
with The Broadway Rose Theatre
Broadway Rose’s Latest Light Fun? This is Most Certainly True!
By Tina Arth Westside Reviews
...I first saw Kymberli Colbourne a few months ago playing
Captain Ahab in Moby Dick, Rehearsed.
Nothing in that impressive performance prepared me for Mavis –
the ultimate farmwife with a sunny disposition,ready to tackle any challenge without complaint.
Colbourne’s fine-tuned and fearless grasp of physical comedy makes her hot-flashes (first seen in the truly funny “My Own Personal Island”)a motif as powerful and oft repeated as the great Lutheran cliché, “This is most certainly true.”
Whether she’s opening a stuck door, cooling herself in the freezer,
or clambering to open a window in sub-zero temperatures Colbourne puts it all out there, and it works...
https://youtu.be/MVKhMwqVzck
AHAB / FATHER MAPPLE in
"Moby Dick - Rehearsed"
with Bag&Baggage Productions
Based on Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Adapted by Orson Welles
“EPIC!” - WILLAMETTE WEEK
...The first female-helmed adaptation of Orson Welles’ Dick is a surprisingly stunning, immersive production from Hillsboro’s one theater troupe...
This is the first production with permission from Welles’ estate to cast women as the leads, and
Colbourne as Ahab is a wonderful tempest onstage.
“EXQUISITE!” -
WESTSIDE THEATRE REVIEWS
...Director Scott Palmer is notorious for deliberately challenging gender conventions in his casting, and the
12-person cast is split evenly between women and men – with a woman (Kymberli Colbourne) in the role of Captain Ahab...
Colbourne’s performance as Ahab and Father Mapple is shattering; the Leading Lady gets lost in the
intensity and insane passion of her roles.
“A TRIUMPH!” – OREGONARTSWATCH.ORG
MARCH 14, 2016 // FEATURED, THEATER, TOP // BRETT CAMPBELL
...Here (as earlier in the Mapple role that Welles also played), veteran actress but Portland and Bag & Baggage newcomer Kymberli Colbourne — the first woman to play Ahab in Welles’s play, thanks to special permission from his estate — creates a convincing portrait of obsession in just a few carefully rendered scenes.
As Colbourne stalks the deck, her face and body project the essence of the crazy captain’s abrasive obsession
and also portray (without contradiction) his persuasive force of personality.
While it’s difficult to escape Orson’s sizable shadow in roles so evidently created for himself,
Colbourne’s implacable Ahab is at once infuriating yet charming enough to convey why the crew
follows him to their doom — just as Welles notoriously seduced so many into joining and even bankrolling his schemes.
“SPOT ON!” – DENNIS SPARKS
...I am never disappointed in Palmer’s shows and this one is no exception...And his choice of women in key roles is spot on.
Colbourne succeeds as Ahab in one specific way, she makes him more human.
And, by doing that, we are able to identify with the torture he must be going through.
"Moby Dick - Rehearsed"
with Bag&Baggage Productions
Based on Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Adapted by Orson Welles
“EPIC!” - WILLAMETTE WEEK
...The first female-helmed adaptation of Orson Welles’ Dick is a surprisingly stunning, immersive production from Hillsboro’s one theater troupe...
This is the first production with permission from Welles’ estate to cast women as the leads, and
Colbourne as Ahab is a wonderful tempest onstage.
“EXQUISITE!” -
WESTSIDE THEATRE REVIEWS
...Director Scott Palmer is notorious for deliberately challenging gender conventions in his casting, and the
12-person cast is split evenly between women and men – with a woman (Kymberli Colbourne) in the role of Captain Ahab...
Colbourne’s performance as Ahab and Father Mapple is shattering; the Leading Lady gets lost in the
intensity and insane passion of her roles.
“A TRIUMPH!” – OREGONARTSWATCH.ORG
MARCH 14, 2016 // FEATURED, THEATER, TOP // BRETT CAMPBELL
...Here (as earlier in the Mapple role that Welles also played), veteran actress but Portland and Bag & Baggage newcomer Kymberli Colbourne — the first woman to play Ahab in Welles’s play, thanks to special permission from his estate — creates a convincing portrait of obsession in just a few carefully rendered scenes.
As Colbourne stalks the deck, her face and body project the essence of the crazy captain’s abrasive obsession
and also portray (without contradiction) his persuasive force of personality.
While it’s difficult to escape Orson’s sizable shadow in roles so evidently created for himself,
Colbourne’s implacable Ahab is at once infuriating yet charming enough to convey why the crew
follows him to their doom — just as Welles notoriously seduced so many into joining and even bankrolling his schemes.
“SPOT ON!” – DENNIS SPARKS
...I am never disappointed in Palmer’s shows and this one is no exception...And his choice of women in key roles is spot on.
Colbourne succeeds as Ahab in one specific way, she makes him more human.
And, by doing that, we are able to identify with the torture he must be going through.
DOROTHY QUIMBY, Ramona's Mom, in "Ramona Quimby"
at the Oregon Children's Theatre, Newmark Stage
Based on a book by Portland's own Beverly Cleary, Adapted by Len Jenkin
Meet Ramona Quimby. She lives on Klickitat Street in NE Portland. She’s incredibly imaginative, boisterous, at times even exasperating, but always fun. She’s beginning third grade where she discovers school is about to become a lot more serious. At home things are getting more challenging too. Her father is fired from his job and returns to college to find another career. Ramona and her big sister Beezus narrate this poignant story of a middle class Portland family in transition. Along the way they don’t always get along, but they learn that relying on one another and their family is the best way to overcome life’s bumps in the road.
at the Oregon Children's Theatre, Newmark Stage
Based on a book by Portland's own Beverly Cleary, Adapted by Len Jenkin
Meet Ramona Quimby. She lives on Klickitat Street in NE Portland. She’s incredibly imaginative, boisterous, at times even exasperating, but always fun. She’s beginning third grade where she discovers school is about to become a lot more serious. At home things are getting more challenging too. Her father is fired from his job and returns to college to find another career. Ramona and her big sister Beezus narrate this poignant story of a middle class Portland family in transition. Along the way they don’t always get along, but they learn that relying on one another and their family is the best way to overcome life’s bumps in the road.
PATSY CLINE in Oregon Cabaret Theatre's production of
"Just A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline"
Patsy Cline was one of the most popular and beloved singers of all time, defying genre to become a global star and a legend. Follow her rise to stardom from small-town Virginia to the Grand Ole Opry, Las Vegas and Carnegie Hall. 20 timeless songs that earned her a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, including:Crazy, Sweet Dreams, Walking’ After Midnight, I Fall To Pieces and Your Cheatin’ Heart.
"Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery,
but what Kymberli Colbourne does in Ashland's Oregon Cabaret Theatre's
production of 'A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline' is more akin to channeling.
…the show seems almost to have been created to showcase Ms. Colbourne's talents,
but even then, her performance exceeded all expectations.
Warning: If you aren't a Patsy Cline fan when the show begins, you'll probably be one by the end.
Portraying a real person, especially one so well-remembered
and whose music is so well-loved, would be a special challenge for any performer,
but it's a challenge Ms. Colbourne is clearly up to.
Whether she's crooning the ballad 'I Fall To Pieces' or belting out the uptempo classics 'Your Cheatin' Heart' and 'Bill Bailey',
Ms. Colbourne shares Patsy's ability to portray emotion with face and voice. As she sings, Ms. Colbourne's eyes roam the audience,
giving theatre-goers the impression that she is singing directly to each of them...Patsy died young, just as her career was really taking off,
and long before many of us had the chance to see her perform.
OCT's current production of 'A Closer Walk With Thee' is a loving tribute,
one that would make a simple country girl named Virginia Patterson Hensley proud."
-- Stephanie Bartlett, Sneak Preview, March 7, 2013
"It is Patsy Cline's music — rather than facts about her life and career — that is the subject of "A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline," which opened Friday at Oregon Cabaret Theatre. It stars Kymberli Colbourne, who sounds uncannily like Cline...
All in all, "A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline" is mostly a concert performance of Cline's music. It comes off as a wonderfully nostalgic look at a music legend, lushly presented through Colbourne's powerful voice. That's what fills the theater and haunts long after the show is over."
- Roberta Kent, Daily Tidings, Feb. 13, 2013
"As a vehicle to showcase the superb vocal skills of Kymberli Colbourne, a company constant and consummate character actress, the show could not be more successful... My guess is that, for Patsy Cline fans—I confess I’ve never been one -- her performance is likely to be a revelation if not an apparent resurrection. (I confirmed the by firing up a Greatest Hits album on my I-phone as soon as I left the theatre.)"
- Rosey, Ashland Play Reviews.com, Feb. 10, 2013
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SISTER ROBERT ANNE in NUNSENSATIONS - The Nunsense Las Vegas Review at the Oregon Cabaret Theatre The Little Sisters of Hoboken of Nunsense fame are back! This time Sister Mary Regina , the Rev. Mother; soul-singing Sister Mary Hubert; Sister Mary Leo, the dancing nun; Sister Robert Anne, the belter from Brooklyn; and ditzy Sister Amnesia – along with her puppet friend Sister Mary Annette – are putting on a show in an unlikely spot: Las Vegas! The nuns venture into the land of sequins, feathers, headdresses and one-liners with faith, hope and a razzle-dazzle of fun and hilarity. "Sister Robert Anne (Kymberli Colbourne, recently seen in OCT's "A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline"), is an outspoken ex-juvenile delinquent from Brooklyn. You can take Robert Anne out of the 'hood, but some Brooklyn always remains. Colbourne's shtick begins 45 minutes before each performance, when Sister Robert Anne conducts a lively audience participation game of bingo, complete with biblically referenced numbers. ("I-37: Immaculate Conception 37"). All of this is improvised and Colbourne never misses a beat or falls out of character." -- ROBERTA KENT Daily Tidings, June 11, 2013 "Individually, the nuns — Alexandra Blouin, Kymberli Colbourne, Laura Derocher, Ellie Holt-Murray and Suzanne Seiber — sparkle. " -- LEE JUILLERAT Herald & News |