Kim Walsh

Biography

Kim Walsh has been acting, directing and teaching theatre throughout the country and abroad for over twenty years. She has taught from Lugano, Switzerland to South East Los Angeles, as well as at the Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse and at Kaiser Permanente, where she was director for Theatre Workshop. Some of her recent directing credits include the UCSD undergraduate production of The Marriage of Bette and Boo, and Other People and Sin Eaters for the Wagner New Play Festival. As a performer she has appeared in film, television and regional theatres including the Signature Theatre in New York and locally at La Jolla Playhouse, where she was in the original productions of Fortinbras, by Lee Blessing (awarded Time Magazine’s Best 10 Plays of the Year), and the musical Elmer Gantry, directed by Des McAnuff. She was a founding member of the Elysium Theater Company in New York, where she performed in many classic and existential German plays including Hinkemann, Fun and Games at the Barbershop and Offending the Audience. On film and in television she has been seen in Secret Santa, Cannon Fields and Rapunzel (WGBH-Boston), as well as numerous commercials.

Education

BS, Emerson College

MFA, UC San Diego

Office

Galbraith Hall 228