Originally from Germany but now a resident of Los Angeles, Kim is an award-winning designer whose work in the past decade has graced stages on both the East and West coasts.
Her set designs include La Boheme (Opera San Jose), A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Dracula (CenterREP), Cabaret and Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge (San Francisco Playhouse), Tales of Hoffman at the Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco Lyric Opera), The Women and Private Lives (Douglas Morrisson Theatre), Shakespeare's Richard III (San Francisco's Project Artaud Theater), and Frozen (Eastender’s Repertory Company). Recent projects include set designs for pop folk duo The Weepies Acoustic US Summer Tour 2011, Frost/Nixon (DMT), Broadway veteran Stepp Stewart's Show N Tell (a new musical that debuted at Washington, DC's Duke Ellington Theatre), Man Of La Mancha and People's Temple (Napa Valley College).
She is also a noted commercial designer with projects in California and in her native Europe. Recent highlights include exterior and interior design elements for KRAFTWERK, a building outside Zurich, Switzerland. Kim is considered a pioneer in the scenic design use of the 3D modeling software Google SketchUp, having authored a case study for a book that was released in France (Créez avec SketchUp: 16 projets, de l'architecture au théâtre). The US version Google SketchUp Workshop: Modeling, Visualizing, and Illustrating was released by Focal Press in December 2010.
Upcoming projects include Dividing The Estate and All My Sons.
Kim is a member of United Scenic Artists (USA) Local 829 I.A.T.S.E. |
