YOURI KIM

Youri Kim is a DMV-based theater director with experience in South Korea, Germany, and U.K. Kim's focus is on how neo-liberal societies define the desire of the minority figure. Kim's plays focus on gender perspectives beyond societal constructs and show minorities as humans not defined by appearance. 

 

Kim graduated from East 15 Acting School, U.K., and directed 'Cane,' 'Where we stand,' and 'Your point of view.' After Kim's debut in the U.K., Kim worked for two years as an assistant producer and director in Trier, Germany. Kim has written, adapted, and directed 'Mother Courage and her gentrification' and '30th-century euthanasia', awarded by the Art council in South Korea and the Incheon Art foundation. Kim's  latest production, (armpit)Hair, is about the social pressure on women to wax armpit hair. The production garnered the Doosan Art lab award, and it was presented in February 2022 at the Doosan art center, South Korea. 

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Kim is labeled in so many ways; a non-binary, Korean, Asian, a millennial, a military spouse, a stranger, a foreigner. However, Kim would like to label herself as a seeker. Kim pursues a new adventure to find the voice and let it out. Kim is newly located in D.C. / Baltimore areas to begin the discourses.