Kimberly Beneville is a Co-Founder of Beneville Studios, an Idea Manifestation Machine based in New York City. With a background in theater, storytelling has been the primary focus of her career, and a skill that has been integral to her work at Beneville Studios.
Born and raised in Connecticut, Kimberly began working as an actress at a young age. She met her future business partner and husband Michael Beneville in 2003, during which time they were both working actors, Kimberly as a performer on a hidden camera show and Michael as a host for an Xbox gaming show. Kimberly and Michael’s first projects together focused on creating bespoke objects such as inventive centerpieces for leading event planners. Though Kimberly and Michael have since divorced, they remain best friends and business partners.
When Kimberly and Michael established Beneville Studios, with Co-Founder and current President Camille Purdy, Kimberly found that her passions for storytelling were best suited to working behind-the-scenes. For the studio’s projects creating commissioned artwork and one-of-a-kind artifacts for exclusive clientele, Kimberly spends countless hours researching and compiling interviews, photos, and footage to construct the story of a client’s life and success. She believes that everyone has a compelling story to tell, and strives to make these stories tangible.
The project that Kimberly views as one of the masterpieces of her career at Beneville Studios was her work on The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, which provides world-class education to previously disadvantaged girls in South Africa. Kimberly and her team traveled to South Africa to interview the first class of girls to graduate from the school, collecting the students’ expressions of their hopes, dreams, and gratitude, which the studio then wove into a hand-bound commemorative book that was presented to Oprah Winfrey and preserves a magical moment in time for all involved.
For the Studio’s more recent work on AREA15, a massive experiential retail and entertainment complex off the Las Vegas strip, Kimberly has played an integral role in researching and securing tenants who will be the best fit for the project.
She has brought in a wide range of partners, including the Santa Fe art collective Meow Wolf, which brought to AREA15 a permanent interactive exhibition featuring the work of hundreds of local and international artists, and Los Angeles-based Lost Spirits, an immersive distillery experience. Kimberly has also spearheaded the creation of an interactive bazaar offering handmade wearable art, including headpieces, jewellery, goggles, cloaks, body suits and more.
Kimberly currently splits her time between Los Angeles, New York, and Las Vegas.
