Kimberly C. Singleton is the President and CEO of Sing Sing 2000 Entertainment (SS2K), a company that produces live comedy events, manages authors and entertainers and produces independent films and video.
Singleton holds a bachelors degree in electrical engineering from Howard University and was employed as the first African American woman engineer at Con Edison of New York. She later obtained an MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business and held various jobs in finance at Coopers & Lybrand, CBS Television Stations, Fox Television, The Fox News Channel and CBS News.
Singleton’s love for photography, poetry and fiction writing, which goes back to grade school, eventually led her to filmmaking. She has studied writing, poetry and film production at the Gotham Writers Workshop and the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center. Her screenplay, “Conscious”, which deals with a young poet living with the HIV virus, qualified her as a finalist in the 2006 BET Rap-It-Up short subject screenplay competition.
Singleton is the writer and producer of the short films, “On My Way To School” and “Kelly’s Secret”. These two films deal with teen issues and have been screened for youth organizations around the country. Singleton is the writer, producer and director of the short films, “Scorned”, “The Color of Funny” and “Not of the Flesh”. All of her films have been screened at film festivals around the United States and Jamaica.
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Chuck has his hands full when spending timewith one girlfriend, another girlfriend shows up. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
Nicole Franklin is an award-winning filmmaker whose credits include the
feature length film I Was Made To Love Her: the Double Dutch Documentary (Sundance Channel, numerous festival awards including Best Documentary at the Hollywood Black Film Festival), the short film The Double Dutch Divas! (Filmakers Library, numerous festival awards including The Inspiration Award at the Riverrun Film Festival), and the television program Journeys In Black: The Jamie Foxx Biography (BET). Nicole produced, directed, wrote and edited all three productions. Currently Nicole is filming Meet BESS (formerly known as Gershwin, Norway and the Artists’ Libido: a Dialogue with Anne Brown, nominated for a 2005 IFP Gordon Parks Award for Directing), which profiles the soprano who originated the role of Bess in Porgy and Bess and the actress for whom George Gershwin wrote the part. Principal photography is on location in Oslo, Norway.
In the narrative world, Nicole just wrapped production as a director for one of the vignettes for the independent feature film Short Comings…Humor in Orgasmic Proportions, a comedy about “smart sex”. Nicole also directed and co-wrote with actor/writer/producer Peter Parros Harlem Sistas Double Dutch (WNET’s Reel NY X). This film is derived from her new feature length screenplay When Sistas Jump, her fourth and final double Dutch film.
Nicole has also entered the world of commercials directing Harlem Brewing Company’s first Internet commercial for Sugar Hill Golden Ale, entitled The Quest.
In addition to film Nicole is directing theatre. Nicole is currently involved in the reading series at the famed New Federal Theatre as well as directing four of the 365 Plays/365 Days pieces of Suzan-Lori Parks for performances at both the Richard Allen Cultural Center for the Arts (RACCA) and The Public Theatre of New York. Nicole helmed the two character one-act Statues of Liberty by playwright Elisa Abatsis which premiered at the Impact Theatre’s Winter One Act Theatre Festival (Brooklyn, NY). In Time Square’s Sage Theatre Nicole also directed a successful staged reading of Judy Chicurel’s play set on a New York City subway, Damon and Debra, starring Jas Anderson and Lorraine Bracco.
Nicole produced writer/director George Valencia’s award-winning short film Moment To Moment (Showtime Latino Filmmaker Award), writer/director Ruth Sergel’s Belle (Broadcast premiere on IFC, Tribeca Film Festival, Lake Placid Film Festival, Rhode Island International Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival, Hamptons International Film Festival) as well as other short films that have gone on to competition in numerous festivals including Slamdance. Nicole is a director, an editor, a post production supervisor, a consulting producer on several upcoming documentaries, a guest speaker on the topic of women in film and travels to Brazil as a guest speaker on racial inclusion in cinema. She also trained as a director on the long-running soap opera As The World Turns. Nicole directs corporate videos and commercials, freelances as a digital cameraperson, and edits The Today Show, Dateline, and NBC Nightly News.
Nicole is an Adjunct Professor at New York University’s TISCH and was featured in the 2002 publication of the NY 411 Production Guide and its profile of women filmmakers in New York. As for affiliations past and present, Nicole’s associations include Producers Guild of America (PGA), Board Member of New York Women In Film and Television (NYWIFT), Independent Feature Project (IFP), Cinewomen NY, a Director in DnA (Directors and Actors workshop), DocuClub, The Black Documentary Collective (BDC), DV Republic, National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), National Association of Broadcast Technicians (NABET) and the actors’ unions SAG and AFTRA.
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follows three different generations of women jumping
rope. The Double Dutch Divas are the oldest of these
jumpers.
Women with names like Spirit, Smooth, Faith, Heart,
Spice, Joy, Sassy and Lady Di are the core of the
Double Dutch Divas, a team that has mastered the art
of jumping and dancing double Dutch during their
twenty years together. They are a real life example of
sisterhood at its best. Giving show stopping
performances in the United States and abroad, they
bring fitness and fun to a multitude of people of all
ethnicities.
The game of double Dutch is an urban game where two
ropes turn simultaneously in egg-beater fashion and
one or more persons jump in the middle. Practiced and
performed by both women and men, it is still a game
where women shine. Age doesn’t stop a Double Dutch
Diva. The oldest jumper is forty-nine. They’re
married, they’re single, they’re mothers, they’re
stress-ridden career people—they never allow the word “can’t” into their vocabulary. Thus, nothing keeps
them from taking back their childhood and inspiring
audiences everywhere
