About

Kim received at arts education at Warwick University and trained as a director on the Birkbeck Theatre Directing MFA, during which she received training at Drama Centre London and the Motley School of Design. She was a resident assistant director at the Manchester Royal Exchange. She was a resident trainee director at Chichester Festival Theatre on a Regional Young Director's Scheme bursary. She was runner up for the JMK young directors' award in 2013. She went on to be a staff director at the National Theatre, and was resident director on The Curious Incident Of The Dog In Night-time for five years, taking the production on what was the National's theatres first multi-country world tour in several years.

 

Kim is a white cis queer director from the town of Luton. Her family are working class and she attended state schools until the last four years of education when she was privately educated on a bursary. She is passionate about inclusive access to the arts and about addressing the systemic racism she has witnessed in theatre. As such she has spent much of the last 10 years working as an ally in the British East Asian sector. She joined Papergang Theatre as Associate Director in 2016, and became co-Artistic Director with Clarissa Widya in 2018. As part of Papergang she covers multiple roles from fundraising, producing to directing productions. Navigating these roles as an ally is never uncomplicated, and the work on self awareness is never complete but it always deepens an artist's practice. 

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In recent years, Kim has been bringing her skills in working with actors to work on performance in other sectors including world leading ballet companies and triple A video games.