Jaime Kleiman is an award-winning journalist, actor, and playwright. She holds a BFA in Acting from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, with honors, with a minor in history and gender studies. She currently resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Jaime has performed in New York City, Washington D.C., Minneapolis, and Ohio, doing everything from musicals to children's theatre to Chekhov, as well as commericals, industrials, and voiceovers. She has worked with, among others, Elizabeth Swados, Steven Wangh, Mary Overlie, Bob McGrath, Genevieve Bennett, Walking Shadow Theatre Company, Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company, Workhouse Theatre Company, Bridge Productions, Park Square Theatre, Theatre Pro Rata, Theatre Unbound, and Eric Tretbar.

In 2006, she was awarded a scholarship by The New York Times Company to attend the O'Neill Theater Conference's National Critics Institute. From 2004-2009, she was the theatre columnist for Mpls.St.Paul Magazine.

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NOW PLAYING:
Talley's Folly

By Lanford WIlson
Workhouse Theatre Company
February 24-March 11, 2012

NEWS & REVIEWS
for Talley's Folly:

  • "The performers dive in nicely to the work...Kleiman is more than his equal."
  • City Pages

  • "Bruce Abas and Jaime Kleiman do lovely work."
  • How Was the Show

    for How I Learned to Drive:

  • "Kleiman's Li'l Bit communicates a natural precocity...a fine performance."
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  • "Kleiman takes the stage in the opening moments and holds it until the final fadeout...quite a feat." Read review

  • Mr. Marmalade chosen as one of the Top Ten shows of 2008
    "Led by pitch-perfect Jaime Kleiman, the cast gave itself with complete abandon to the lunatic invention of playwright Noah Haidle."

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