Writing/Productions



Kim E. Ruyle
W6842 Blue Heron Blvd #14
Fond du Lac, WI 54937
1-616-308-3255
KimRuyle.com
New Play Exchange
 
 
Full-Length Plays (90+ Minutes)
Tennessee Wet Rub
  • June 2025 – Staged Production, Theatre Rocks, Ennis, Texas.
  • August 2024 – American Association of Community Theatre World Premiere Production, Cottage Theatre, Cottage Grove, Oregon.
  • March 2023 – Staged Reading, Upright Theatre Company, Euless, Texas.
  • September 2022 – Staged Reading, The Legacy Theatre, Stony Creek, Connecticut.
  • July 2022 – Streamed Reading, Chicago Dramatists, Chicago, Illinois.
A Crooked French Affair
  • May 2026 – Staged Production, Baraboo Theatre Guild, Baraboo, Wisconsin.
  • April – May 2026 – Staged Production, Kettle Moraine Playhouse, Slinger, Wisconsin.
  • March 2023 – Staged Production, Fond du Lac Community Theatre, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. A Production in World Premiere Wisconsin, 2023.
  • October 2022 – Streamed Reading, Chicago Dramatists, Chicago, Illinois.
Sliding into Seniorhood
  • February – March 2026 – Staged Production, Fond du Lac Community Theatre, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
  • March 2022 – Staged Reading, Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
  • September 2021 – Staged Production, Shawnee Playhouse, Shawnee on Delaware, Pennsylvania.
Five Frickin Winters
  • November 2023 – Staged Production, Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
  • February – March 2023 – Staged Production, Attleboro Community Theatre, Attleboro, Massachusetts.
  • June 2022 – Staged Production, The Viera Studio for the Performing Arts, Melbourne, Florida.
Maeve’s Camellia
  • May 2024 – Staged Production, Interchange Theater Co-op, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
  • January 2024 – Staged Production, Forst Inn, Kewaunee, Wisconsin.
  • April 2022 – Staged Reading, Episcopal Actors’ Guild, New York City, New York.
Wyoming 1879
  • January 2025 – Streamed Reading, Chicago Dramatists, Chicago, Illinois.
Hellbent in a Northwoods Cabin
  • August 2023 – Staged Reading of an Excerpt, Chicago Dramatists, Chicago, Illinois.
Condo Christmas Caper
  • August 2024 – Workshopped with local actors, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
Mourning Woods Merengue
  • July 2023 - Staged Theatrical Reading, Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
  • May 2023 –Streamed Reading, Chicago Dramatists, Chicago, Illinois.
Kalispell
  • September 2021 – Staged Production, Chain Theatre, New York City, New York.
  • May 2019 – Staged Reading, Broom Street Theater, Madison, Wisconsin.
  • June-July 2018 – Staged Production, Surfside Playhouse, Cocoa Beach, Florida.

Taking it in the Shorts – A Collection of One Act Plays
The first three of the one-act plays and all of the 10-minute plays below are bundled in one script that provides an opportunity to design a custom theatrical event by mixing and matching two or more plays.

One-Act Plays (~30 – ~45 Minutes)
Yeah, Art Figures
  • November 2025 - Staged Production, Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
  • April – May 2024 – Staged Production, Tisch Mills Fringe Festival, Tisch Mills, Wisconsin.
  • May 2024 – Staged Reading, Surfside Playhouse, Cocoa Beach, Florida.
  • April 2024 – Staged Production, The Theatre of Western Springs, Western Springs, Illinois.
  • March 2024 – Staged Production, Rondo Theatre, Bath, England.
Dinkers Taming Bangers
  • April 2026 - Staged Reading, Best Medicine Rep, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
  • June 2024 – Staged Production, Ritz Theatre Company, Haddon Township, New Jersey.
  • January 2024 – Streamed Reading, Chicago Dramatists, Chicago, Illinois.
Truck Stop Wisdom
  • November 2025 - Staged Production, Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
  • December 2024 – Streamed Reading, Chicago Dramatists, Chicago, Illinois.
Sky Club Compatibility
  • June 2019 – Staged Production, Surfside Playhouse, Cocoa Beach, Florida
  • September 2018 – Staged Production, Surfside Playhouse, Cocoa Beach, Florida

10-Minute Plays
He Ain’t No Stephen Adly Guirgis
  • November 2025 - Staged Production, Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
  • July 2025 – Staged Production, Forest Inn Arts Collective, Kewaunee, Wisconsin.
  • June 2024 – Staged Production, Players’ Ring Theatre, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
  • August 2023 – Staged Production, Broadway Theatre 24-Hour Play Fest, De Pere, Wisconsin.
It’s Not Blood
  • November/December 2024 – Staged Production, Veterans Repertory Theatre, Cornwall, New York.
Va-Va-Vicarious
  • November 2025 - Staged Production, Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
  • October 2025 - Staged Reading, Midwest Dramatists Conference, Olathe, Kansas.
  • May 2025 - Student Production, University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana.
  • June 2024 – Streamed Performance, PlayZoomers, cast and crew, Hollywood, California.
  • March 2024 – Staged Production, First Run Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri.
  • May 2023 – Staged Production, Everybody’s Theater, Upper Dublin, Pennsylvania.
  • February 2023 – Staged Production, Chicago Dramatists Four Loves Festival, Chicago, Illinois.
Oh, Dear God, Dad is a Feminist
  • May 2024 – Staged Production, The Tipping Point Theatre CBUS, Columbus, Ohio.
What Baggage
  • November 2025 - Staged Production, Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
  • July 2025 - Staged Production, Forst Inn Arts Collective, Kewaunee, Wisconsin.
  • February-March 2025 - Staged Theatrical Reading, Burlington County Footlighters, Cinnaminson, New Jersey.
  • February 2024 – Staged Reading, Fond du Lac Area Writers, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
Thalia’s B&B
  • July 2024 – Staged Reading, Cottage Theatre, Cottage Grove, Oregon.
  • August 2021 – Streamed Reading, Play Readings with Friends, NYC, New York.

Screenplay

Saved at Summitview Manor
  • 2021/2022 – Workshopped with actors from Chicago.

Awards and Recognition

Year Detail
2025 Wyoming 1879 – *Finalist in 2025 Scriptwriters & Co International Festival, Full-Length Play Script Category. *2nd Round Selection in Austin Film Festival Stage Play Competition.
2025 Va-Va-Vicarious – *Honorable Mention in Brewster Theater Company 2025 Playwright Festival. *Selection for the 2025 Midwest Dramatists Conference.

2024 - 2025

 Hellbent in a Northwoods Cabin – *Finalist in Veteran Repertory Theater 2025 Full-Length Play Competition ($2000 granted awarded).  *Finalist in 2024 Scriptwriters & Co International Festival, Full-Length Play Script Category. *Finalist 2024 Wisconsin Wrights, Forward Theatre (Awarded for early draft, Flannel Sheets and a John Deere).
2024 - 2026 Dinkers Taming Bangers – *Finalist in Ritz Theatre Company's One-Act Play Festival. *Finalist in Best Medicine Rep Theatre Company 2025 - 2026 Reading Series.
2024 Yeah, Art Figures – *Quarterfinalist in the 2024 Scriptwriters & Co International Festival, Mid-Length Play Script Category. *Semifinalist in the Plays from the Heartland Festival. *Finalist in the 2024 Theatre Off the Square New Works Contest.
2024 Truck Stop Wisdom -– *Finalist in Nomad Theatre's By the Fireside One-Act Play Contest.
2024 Oh, Dear God, Dad is a Feminist – *Finalist in The Southeast Texas Festival of New Plays.
2023 Inaugural Network Playwright Award. Chicago Dramatists.
 2023 - 2024 A Crooked French Affair – *Semifinalist 2023 Seven Devils Playwright Conference. *Finalist in Generic Theatre New Plays for Dog Days Festival.
2022 Five Frickin Winters - *Finalist in 2022 New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest.
2022 - 2024 Maeve’s Camellia (Awards to early draft, Love Lately) – *Quarterfinalist in 2024 Scriptwriters & Co International Festival, Full-Length Play Script Category. *2nd Round Selection in 2022 Stage Play Category, Austin Film Festival.
2022 – 2023 Tennessee Wet Rub – *Winning Play in AACT NewPlayFest 2024. *Best Stage Play in Scriptwriters & Co International Festival. *Best Script Overall in Scriptwriters & Co International Festival. *Winning Play in Original Works Series, Arts Fort Worth. *Finalist in 2023 National Playwriting Competition, Theatre Rocks. *Finalist ThinkTank TYA. *Finalist 2023 Stanley Drama Award. *Overall Winner of 2022 Legacy Play Reading Festival. *Finalist in ScreenCraft Stage Play Contest. *Honorable Mention in the Script (Stage Play/Television/ Movie Script/Short Film) category of the 91st Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition. *2nd Round Selection in Stage Play Category, Austin Film Festival.
2020 – 2022 Sliding into Seniorhood – *Finalist for Best Original Full-Length Production of Theatrical Season 2021 (Writing), Northeastern Pennsylvania Theatrical Alliance, Carbondale, Pennsylvania. *Grand Winner of 2020/2021 Original Playwrights Full-Length Competition, Shawnee Playhouse/Pennsylvania Council of the Arts.
2022 - 2023 Saved at Summitview Manor – *Best Feature Screenplay of January 2022, Wiki Screenplay Contest. *Quarterfinalist, New York International Screenplay Awards. *Quarterfinalist, Reno Tahoe Screenplay Contest. *Semifinalist, Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards. Selection, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards. *Award Winner, WRPN.tv Screenplay Competition.
2021 Thalia’s B&B – *Semifinalist for the International Stage It! 10-Minute Play Festival, Center for the Performing Arts, Bonita Springs, Florida.
2019 Sky Club Compatibility – *Winner of 2019 Brevard One-Act Play Writing Competition, Cocoa Beach, Florida.
2018 Kalispell – *Winner of 2018 Brevard Full-Length Play Writing Competition, Cocoa Beach, Florida.

 

Theatre-Related Publications


Tennessee Wet Rub. 2025. Dramatic Publishing.
A Crooked French Affair. 2025. Next Stage Press.
Kalispell. 2025. Next Stage Press.
Five Frickin Winters. 2025. Next Stage Press.
Sliding into Seniorhood. 2025. Next Stage Press.
Joe’s Monologue from Mourning Woods Merengue. Lamedman, D. (Ed.). The Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2024. Smith and Kraus Publishers.
Bruce’s Monologue from Kalispell. Lamedman, D. (Ed.). The Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2023. Smith and Kraus Publishers.
Bud’s Monologue from Kalispell. Lamedman, D. (Ed.). The Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2023. Smith and Kraus Publishers.

Additional Experience


Kim Ruyle’s stories come from a unique perspective. A US Army veteran with blue-collar roots, Kim grew up in rural America and had a business career that took him to 49 states and 45 countries.

  • MS and PhD degrees from Oregon State University. MEd degree from Texas A&M – Commerce. MBA degree from University of Wisconsin.
  • Member of The Dramatists Guild of America, The Playwrights’ Center, Chicago Dramatists, and CreateTheater Expert's Theater Company. Alumnus of the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive. Graduate of the Theatre Resources Unlimited Master-Level Producer Development and Mentorship Program.
  • Author or coauthor of five books on leadership and talent management. Frequent speaker, more than 100 presentations at local, national, and international conferences. Served on numerous expert panels and editorial boards.