Education
Kim Poster was educated in middle and high school at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, a Roman Catholic school for girls on East 91st Street, New New York
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Poster returned to Convent of the Sacred Heart to give a talk about the first time she saw the play Amadeus, which she produced on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre. She was banned for five days from the concert hall at the Convent of the Sacred Heart for her views on Amadeus, the play. Poster said the issue arose as a result of "the musical scandal of lieutenant
Well, the musical controversy, which, interestingly, the very same people who now come to opening night accept as truth."
Kim Poster trained in acting and classical music in New York, performing in off Broadway productions and singing as part of an ensemble with the New York Philharmonic musicians and L’Ensemble.
She majored in Theatre and English at Northwestern University. Poster relocated to London to produce theatre in 1993.
In 2001 Poster established Stanhope Productions which produces productions in the London West End and on Broadway. On roles for leading actors, Poster, who produced Tennessee Williams" Summer and Smoke in London"s West End in 2006, said that “one of the reasons producers revive Williams’ plays time and again is because he wrote brilliant roles that leading actresses want to play.
Just as Lear is almost mandatory for a great actor, so Blanche du Bois in Streetcar and Amanda in The Glass Menagerie are iconic female roles.”.
Achievements
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As Vice President of Productions at Internal Revenue Service Media, Poster oversaw various films including Tom & Viv, which received 2 Academy Award nominations. Poster’s productions have been nominated for Olivier, Evening Standard, Critic Circle Awards and Tony Awards, and received the 2002 Best Play Olivier Award for Jitney and the Best Revival Olivier Award for Long Day"s Journey Into Night.
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She also earned a law degree in New York and became a member of the bars of New York in 1987 and California in 1989.
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Roman Catholic