Yeonshin Kim

Yeonshin Kim is a Korean actor, dancer, and theater maker drawn to “bigger-than-human” scale performances: unhinged, shiny, hungry, mischievous, and unapologetically Yeonshin! Her work springs from the play she finds in clowning and movement, and the meaning she feels in sharing her Koreanness. She just performed TELL ME YOUR NAME at Philadelphia Fringe Festival, a clown show as a “Pet Shaman” exploring colonial-inflicted trauma.

Based in Seattle, she was in the devised theatre piece DREAM, CARL, DREAM, as a neuron working with the audience to create dreams that save Carl’s life; and performed as Newbie—who butt-wiggles on an accelerating conveyor belt—in OMNIA BREAK ROOM, a movement play critiquing mass consumerism.

Over the past decade, she has lived, trained, and performed internationally, shaping a practice grounded in her Koreanness while continuously reshaped by a nomadic life across borders. Her international credits include WILL YOU MARRY (WITH) ME with Prologue Production (Dubai, UAE); a playwright residency with Exit 11 Performing Arts Company, where she developed her original play PLEASE COME PLEASE GO (Abu Dhabi, UAE); and THE FANTASTICKS at the Daegu International Musical Festival (Daegu, South Korea).

Headshot: Susan Doupé