Bruce Kimmel wrote, directed and starred in the cult movie hit, The First Nudie Musical (available on a Special Edition DVD). He also co-created (with David Wechter) the story for the hit film, The Faculty, directed by Robert Rodriguez. As an actor, Mr. Kimmel guest-starred on most of the long-running television shows of the 1970s, including The Partridge Family (recurring), Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, MASH, Alice, and many others, including leading roles in several pilots for all three of the major networks. His second film, The Creature Wasn't Nice, starring Cindy Williams, Leslie Nielsen, Patrick Macnee, and Gerrit Graham was horribly recut and mangled by its producers, but has recently had Kimmel's original cut finally released on DVD so people can finally see what the film was meant to be.
Since 1993, Mr. Kimmel has been one of the leading producers of theatre music on CD, having produced over 180 albums. He was nominated for a Grammy for producing the revival cast album of Hello, Dolly! and his album with jazz pianist Fred Hersch, I Never Told You, was also nominated for a Grammy. He has produced solo albums for Petula Clark, Helen Reddy, Jason Graae, Liz Callaway, Christiane Noll, Rebecca Luker, Brent Barrett, Sally Mayes, Judy Kaye, Judy Kuhn, and many others. His label, Kritzerland, has released close to 400 CDs since 2005.
His musical, The Brain From Planet X (written with David Wechter) has been seen in Los Angeles, New York, the United Kingdom, Canada, and is now being performed regionally all over the country.
He was a writer/producer on season one of Penn and Teller's Bullshit for Showtime. He also was the writer/director of the hit web series, Outside the Box. He also regularly directs theater in Los Angeles - including critically acclaimed, award-winning productions such as Dial "M" for Murder, an original musical revue called L.A. Now and Then, Li'l Abner, an original musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol, a modernized, feminized version called A Carol Christmas, with a book by Doug Haverty and a score by Kimmel, for which he won a Scenie Award and was nominated for on Ovation Award.
Most recently, he created, wrote, and directed the award-winning web series Sami, now streaming on Amazon Prime and featuring the final performance by legendary Cindy Williams.
Mr. Kimmel is the author of twenty-five books - his acclaimed Benjamin Kritzer trilogy (Benjamin Kritzer, Kritzerland, and Kritzer Time), the mysteries Writer's Block and Rewind, his five Adriana Hofstetter mysteries, Murder At Hollywood High, Murder At The Grove, Murder At The Hollywood Historical Society, Murder At The Masquers, Murder at the School Musical, Murder at the Hollywood Division, Murder at the Magic Castle, his young adult western, Red Gold, as well as his collection of short fiction, How To Write A Dirty Book and Other Stories and his two memoirs, "There's Mel, There's Woody, and There's You": My Life In The Slow Lane and Album Produced By. In recent years he published the comic novel, Patrick Bronstein Presents (2016), Thrill Ride (2017), GEE (2018), Simply - A Lifetime of Lyrics (2020), a compendium of his lyrics from 1962 to now, Some Days Are Murder (2021), 'Tis the Season to Be Murdered (2022), Preview Harvey (2023), a new Benjamin Kritzer novel, Kritzer World (2023), and Directed by (2024).
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