Since moving to the Bay Area from Cologne, Germany in 2001, where she did scenic design for opera and theatre, award-winning designer Kim A. Tolman has worked on over 150 productions in the United States. Her set designs include A Midsummer Night’s Dream for CenterREP, Cabaret for SF Playhouse, San Francisco Lyric Opera's Tales of Hoffman at the Palace of the Legion of Honor, Kindertransport for the Douglas Morrisson Theatre, Shakespeare's Richard III for LupineEvent at San Francisco's Project Artaud Theater, and Frozen for Eastender’s Repertory Company. Recent projects include Broadway veteran Stepp Stewart's Show N Tell (a new musical that debuted at Washington, DC's Duke Ellington Theatre in March 2010), Singin' in The Rain for Berkeley Playhouse, Man Of La Mancha for Napa Valley College, and art deco-inspired design elements for Kraftwerk, a building to be completed 2010 near Zurich, Switzerland. She also contributed a case study to Créez avec SketchUp: 16 projets, de l'architecture au théâtre, a book about professionals who use SketchUp software published in France in fall 2009. Upcoming projects include Dracula for CenterREP, Private Lives for DMT and La Bohème for Opera San José. Kim is a member of United Scenic Artists Local USA 829, I.A.T.S.E.