POETRY BIO

Kim published “Border Sounds: Poems & Dispatches from Other Time Zones in 2021 and “A Bit Left of Straight Ahead” in 2024
In addition, he published 150+ lineated poems, prose poems, creative non-fiction, flash fiction, haiku, haibun, and micro-fiction, both in print and on-line in journals from Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, Ireland, Korea, Poland, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, United Arab Emirates (Dubai) and the USA, including The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Frogpond, and Mudlark. 
He has taken numerous writing workshops with the Poetry Barn in West Hurley, NY, and The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD. with poets including Sandra Beasley, Joshua Davis, Lissa Kiernan, and Kim Noriega.

THEATER BIO

As long-time Artistic Director of Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences (TYA), Kim commissioned and produced 100+ new plays and musicals and presented the finest national and international TYA artists.
He and Deirdre Kelly Lavrakas are founding co-directors of the ground-breaking play development program New Visions/New Voices and co-edited: New Visions/New Voices: 25 Years/25 Plays (Dramatic Publishing, 2016). He and Deirdre are also co-founders (with Tony Mack of Australia the international network for TYA playwrights, Write Local Play Global, and was a long-time member of the boards of both the US and international service organizations for theaters for young audiences 
Public recognition includes:
**2008. Monte Meacham award for long time distinguished service to the American Association for Theater and Education by a person outside of AATE
**2008, Mickey Miners award for long-time distinguished service to the field, presented by IPAY, International Performing Arts for Youth
**2017, Named a ‘Member of Honor’ by ASSITEJ, the international association of theaters for young audiences.
**2018. Recipient, with Deirdre Kelly Lavrakas, Theater for Young Audiences first ever Harold Oaks Award for long time distinguished service for our work with New Visions/New Voices,
**2018: Inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre.
**2024. Lifetime Achievement Award for work in the United States, presented by ASSITEJ, the international association of theaters for young audiences,