Bruce Kimmel

Bruce Kimmel (born December 8, 1947), also known as Guy Haines, is an actor, writer, director, composer, and Grammy-nominated CD producer. Kimmel lives in Los Angeles. He is long divorced, and has one daughter.

As an actor, Kimmel appeared in many TV shows, such as The Partridge Family (multiple episodes), Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Alice, M*A*S*H, Dinah and her New Best Friends (series regular), Donny and Marie (four guest shots), Playboy on the Air (series regular), as well as many pilots. He also appeared in the films The Apple Dumpling Gang, First Family, and Racquet.

He is the writer and director of The First Nudie Musical (1976), The Creature Wasn't Nice (1983), Prime Suspect (1989). Currently writing and directing a new web series, Outside the Box, an exclusive web series at Broadway World (www.broadwayworld.com). The first two seasons (six episodes each) have been aired, and season three begins shooting in April 2013.

He has also written many plays/musicals, including a thriller, Deceit (2006), and the musical, The Brain From Planet X (2006). The Brain is a spoof of 50's alien invasion movies and was featured in 2008's Festival of New American Musicals with a run at The Chance Theater in Anaheim, California. Other plays and musicals include The Good One, Stages, Together Again, a musical version of The Comedy of Errors, Start at the Top, Feast, all of which were produced in Los Angeles. In 2004 he wrote most of and directed all of a hit musical revue called What If, at the Hudson Theater. In 2011 he directed a new musical revue, Lost and Unsung, based on his albums Lost in Boston and Unsung Musicals. More recently he directed two critically acclaimed productions, Li'l Abner and Inside Out. In 2016 he created a new musical revue, L.A. Now and Then, a love-letter to Los Angeles, the city that was and the city that is. He wrote many of its songs and a few of its sketches, and other writers included Bruce Vilanch, Richard M. Sherman, Adryan Russ, Shelly Markham, Grant Geissman, David Wechter, Paul Gordon, Doug Haverty, Michele Brourman, and Karen Gottlieb. Lanny Meyers, one of Kimmel's longtime collaborators, provided the orchestration. The two-CD cast album was released on Kritzerland and the show received rave reviews.

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