Kim Singleton

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.