TOD KIMBRO has been an active Renaissance man in the Orlando arts scene since 1997.  He became an overnight success when his first play, The Zombie Doorman, premiered at the Orlando International Fringe Festival and became the festival's top seller.  Since then, Tod has been tirelessly exploring his diverse talents as a songwriter, playwright, singer, musician, actor, director, and visual artist.

"Kimbro is a terrific pianist and singer...a smooth, polished voice." --Orlando Sentinel

Tod received a BA in Theatre from the University of Central Florida in 1999. He was the founder, President, and Artistic Director of iMPACTE! Productions, a company known for its energetic and innovative approach to the stage.  For two years, he ran the iMPACTE!, a Winter Park theater dedicated to the presentation of up-and-coming original works.  After the theater closed in 2002, Tod began pursuing a career in the music industry.  Currently, he can be seen five nights a week as a singer and dueling pianist at Pat O'Brien's, located in Universal Orlando’s CityWalk.  He has also performed at Gaylord Palms, The Hard Rock Hotel, and countless other resorts and clubs throughout the country.

Since the late 90's, Tod has written over 20 plays and over 200 pieces of music. From his raw, edgy twenty-something sagas (1998's Suckers and 1999's electra at the wiener stand, both selected as Best Original Work at Orlando Fringe); to his experimental electronic rock opera (2000's LOUD, a nominee for the Osborn Award, a national prize for emerging playwrights); from a ground-breaking original on-stage sitcom (2000-2001's 8 monthly installments of CAFFEINE); to a pulse-pounding retro-rock show (2005's acclaimed Hurricane Me); from his 2006 debut album Soundtrack to a Chemical Spill; to his epic sci-fi rock musical My Illustrious Wasteland...Tod has proven himself as an adventurous, multi-faceted artist with an unstoppable creative drive.

Tod's foray into rock cabaret has been a big success.  His first show, 2007's F-Bombs and G-Strings was a smash at Orlando Fringe.  And his second, 2008's In the Blue won the Patron's Pick award.  His latest show, Robots Stole My Piano, introduces electronic elements into his distinctive sound.

REVIEWS

"Keyboard-vocalist Tod Kimbro is well-known to Central Florida audiences and...his popularity is well deserved.  Kimbro has a terrific, expressive voice and his fingers flying across the keys can be mesmerizing.  But his show is more than his musical talents: It's the physicality of his playing, the arched eyebrows, the head tossed back, the pulsing leg.  You can see he's feeling the music, and it makes you feel it too."
--Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel

"Tod Kimbro is one of Central Florida's most original musicians and...one of the most talented, idiosyncratic, and compelling talents ever to emerge from the Fringe scene.  He is always interesting to listen to and great fun to watch...his piano stylings and rich vocals are constantly inventive and always abundantly theatrical. When he performs his own compositions from various musicals he has written over the years, one truly gets a sense of his originality and the expansive breadth of his musical tastes."
--Al Krulick, Orlando Weekly

"Seems like Tod Kimbro can do anything, at least where music is involved.  He can sound amazingly like Elton John and then turn around and sound astonishingly like Billy Joel."
--Elizabether Maupin on Theater

"A full house gave him a well deserved ovation!"
--Carl F. Gauze, Ink 19's Archikulture Digest