| Super Kid: Kim Anderson |
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| Written by Malika Dudley - mdudley@kgmb9.com | |||
| May 15, 2008 07:28 AM | |||
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Just one of the many hats she currently wears, and a brief mention on her four-page long resume. Kim is a director, writer, singer, actress, teacher and community volunteer. Impressive in itself, but even more so when you know what she had to overcome. Her mom was the first to notice. "In the 2nd grade I noticed that she really had difficulty reading and spelling and doing math. It just took so long to do anything. I knew that something was wrong with her." Diagnosed with moderate to severe dyslexia, in the third grade, she had the reading level of a first-grader. "If you have a disability of any kind that shouldn't stop you at all from doing what you love to do." It never stopped Kim. The little girl that had difficulty even finishing a book, at the age of 9, was chosen to write book reviews both locally and nationally. "It definitely helped with my dyslexia having to push myself to read through all these books and write a review about it and make sure it was good enough to be presented at Borders." Soon she moved from reading books to reading scripts. Growing up in a family of actors, it was only a matter of time. At the age of 6, she joined Diamond Head Theater's "Shooting Stars," "which is our children's performing group. Kim was and continues to be the youngest member we ever had in that group." She's also the youngest person to receive the prestigious Po'okela Award, nominated at the age of 13 for her role as Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. "Wizard of Oz was really my kind of break through show. It was my first lead, it was a lot of hard work. I was on stage most of the time, there was one scene that I wasn't in." Since then she's been in over a dozen musicals, and even written a few. They're long, heavy and apparently, exceptionally good. "She said she wanted to write a script for a Christmas musical. We thought if its alright, its alright, but man when the doors opened at that Christmas musical, it was absolutely phenomenal. It blew everybody's minds away." She also teaches tap dance classes, writes, directs and performs weekly skits at her church and has been recognized for outstanding contributions to her community by none other than the president himself. But what's her true passion? "When I'm singing I feel like thats when I'm most happy, that is my true bliss that I find on earth." "I think she's exceptionally talented she's exceptionally well-raised, polite courteous, well-mannered and really a super kid in many ways, not just on stage but off."              |
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