Soomi Kim~
AEA
334 E. 9th st., #20, NYC,
NY, 10003
Cel: 646-326-1233
Website:
soomikim.com
Email:
soomdawg@gmail.com
THEATRE
2013 Chang(e)
Kathy Change
Suzi
Takahashi
Culturemart,
HERE Arts Center
(workshop)
2012 Hiding Words
Nu Shu
Esther Jun
Enwave
Theater, Eventual
Ashes, Toronto,
Canada
2012 Dictee: bells fall
a peal to sky
Yu Guan
Soon/Persephone
Suzi Takahashi
Culture
Project’s Women
Center Stage Festival,
The Living Theatre
2011 Dictee: bells fall
a peal to sky
Yu Guan
Soon/Persephone
Suzi Takahashi
3rd National
Asian American
Theater Festival, Inner
City Arts, LA
2010 Paris Syndrome
Company
member
Emma Griffin
HERE Arts
Center, Ex.p Girl
2010 Last Life
Urir
Timothy Haskell
The Ohio
Theatre
2010 The Vagina
Monologues
Actor/ensemble
Kate
Russell
The Abington
Theatre
2008
Lee/gendary
Bruce Lee
Suzi
Takahashi
HERE Arts
Center
2007 Echo-system:
the desert
Company
member
Grisha Coleman
New Hazlett,
Pittsburgh, PA.
2007
10 Plates
Company
member
Takahashi/Ferdman
HERE Arts Center NYC.
Ex.p Girl
2007 Lee/gendary
Bruce Lee
Suzi
Takahashi
1st
National Asian Am.
Theatre Fest., Samuel
Beckett Theater NYC
2006
The Beautiful
Joanne
Marlies
Yearby
Dance
Theater Workshop
2005 Voice of the
Dragon II
Gar Man Jang
Terry O’Reilly
Apollo Theater/Fred
Ho
2003 Swan
Swan
Virlana Tkacz
LaMama/Yara Arts
Group
2003 Voice of the
Dragon U.S. Tour
Ng Mui
Mira
Kingsley
U.S.
Tour, CAMI, Fred Ho
(Big Red Media Prods.)
2001 Once Upon a
Time in Chinese
America
Ng Mui
Mira Kingsley
BAM Harvey Theater,
Next Wave Festival
2000 X x Infinity
Woman/lead
Zelda Gergel
Manhattan Theater
Source, NYC
2000 Carefully
Taught
Cindy/Cie
Jessica Provenz
Greenwich St. Theater
1999 Irving Berlin
and the American
Immigrant Experience
Kim
Tonya Calomnari
NYC Tour/Town Hall
(TYA)
1998 Flight of the
White Bird
Balzhan Khatan
Virlana Tkacz
LaMama/Yara Arts
Group
1997 Fables
The Hare
Dobrusky
Pavel
Denver Center Theater
Company
1996 The Wizard of
Oz
Ensemble
Worth Gardner
Ordway Music Theater,
St. Paul, MN.
FILM /TELEVISION
2013 We Might Be
Superheroes
Kickstart
Daria
Morra
Web
series/Amusement
Films
2012 Kill St.
Fighter
Scott
Cramer
Lightbulb NYC Prod. In
association with dR3
Films
2011 The Potential
Wives of Norman Mao
Angela Chin
Derek
Nguyen
Manga
Productions/Derek
Nguyen
2005 Double Dealing
Felicia Akimoto
Victoria Linchon
Victoria Linchon,
producer
2004 Red Wind
Red Wind stunt
double
Rafael
Kayanan
Starlight
Entertainment
2003 MBC
Anniversary Special
Martial artist
Rafael
Kayanan
Empire
Entertainment/MBC
(Beirut, Lebanon)
2002 Law & Order
Detective
Shimura
Stephen Shill
NBC
2001 Artifacts
Museum Woman
Jon
Zeiderman
Jon Zeiderman,
Producer
2000 The Girls From
H.A.R.M.
Troya Nice
Pat
Bishow
Amusement Films
1998 Possession
Lead
Stephen Nam
Stephen Nam,
producer
1997 Snapshots
From a .500 Season
Jocelyn
Brooks Elms
Evolution Films
L.
ARTIST LED/SELFPRODUCED
PERFORMANCE
Chang(e)
Commissioned by
HERE Arts, current
Artist in Resident at
HERE Arts Center and
Hemispheric Institute,
2 workshops at the
Asian Arts Initiative in
Philadelphia, PA.
Dictee: bells fall a peal
to sky- 3rd National
Asian American
Theater Festival,
Culture Project’s
Women Center Stage,
workshops at Dance
New Amsterdam and
Mulberry St. Theater.
Lee/gendary- HERE
Arts Center, First
National Asian
American Theater
Festival (Samuel
Beckett Theater), The
American Living Room
Theater Festival (3LD).
Bruce Lee: Inside the
Lost InterviewNuyorican Poets’ Café,
NYC.
COMMERCIALS
2005 LG
Diver
Picture Productions
2000 MTV2 Promo
Revolutionary
Girl
MTV2
1999 Fanatics Promo
fan
Wesley Snipes
MTV
PRINT
2005 Manhattan
Moves
Martial
Artist/acrobat
Fitness Spread,
Manhattan Moves
Magazine
2004 Getty Images
Model/Martial
Artist
Stock
Photography
VOICE OVER
1998-2005 ESL tapesPaul Ruben
Productions (Korean
accent)
2003 MaGraw Hill
Young PerformancesPianist (Korean
accent)
TAPED INDUSTRIALS
Sloan Kettering Cancer
Center: Receptionist,
Nurse
DeBeers Diamond
Training video: Kim
LIVE INDUSTRIALS &
CORPORATE EVENTS
2003-2007: Martial
Arts performer for
“The Art of War” a
performance troupe
under Empire
Entertainment. Staged
choreographed fights
and forms: Empty
hand, Wushu,
acrobatics and
nanchakus.
Over 20 live
performances all over
the U.S. for
corporations such as:
Intel, Symantec,
Amgen, Del, Pfizer,
Forever Living,
Pontiac.
COMPANIES
2006-2010: Ex.P Girl,
all female
experimental
movement theater
ensemble (10 Plates
and Paris Syndrome)
HERE Arts Center.
2000-2007: Echosystem: the desert,
vocal & dance
ensemble. Grisha
Coleman, composer
and choreographer (On
the Boards, Carnegie
Melon, Eyebeam
Residency, UMass
Amherst and New
Hazlett)
2004-2007: The Art of
War (Empire
Entertainment),
martial arts
performance troupe.
Live industrials,
events, parties and
television appearances
all over the U.S. and in
Beirut, Lebanon.
TRAINING
1994 Graduate of the
Circle in the Square 2
year Professional
Training Program
1996-1999 Meisner
Technique with David
Perry at Carnegie
Studios
1998 Scene Study for
Film and Television at
3 of Us Studios NYCShelly Levinson
1999 Scene Study for
Film and T.V. at One on
One Studios NYC with
casting directors: Gayle
Keller, Katarina
Eggman and Danielle
Diller
2007 Choreolab
workshop at Dance
New Amsterdam with
dance theater
choreographer,
Alexandra Beller
2010 Certificate from
the Choreographic
Investigation Course at
Dance New
Amsterdam with Dan
Safer, Keely Garfield
and Gus Solomons
SPECIAL SKILLS
Proficient in
choreographed Martial
Arts fighting and stage
combat (trained in Wu
Shu, basic Wing Chun,
boxing, nunchakus),
Dance: jazz, modern,
ballet, hip hop. Trained
gymnast, excompetitor, coach and
choreographer, Voice:
mezzo soprano, jazz
and musical theatre
private studies 4 years
(Suzy Stern, Wade
Russo, Kirsty Kaldro),
Dialects: Korean,
Chinese, Standard
British, American
Southern, Alto
saxophonist: classical
and jazz (can flip on
trampoline while
playing the sax)
AWARDS and
HONORS
2013 Creation Fund
(NPN)
2013 Politics in
Performance
Hemispheric Institute
Artist in Residence for
Chang(e).
2012 HERE Arts
Residence Program
(HARP) as lead artist
for Chang(e).
2009 New York
Innovative Theater
Awards for
Lee/gendary:
Nominations:
Outstanding Actress in
a Lead Role (as Bruce
Lee), Outstanding
Choreography,
Outstanding
Production of a Play.
WIN for Outstanding
Production of a play.
2008 Urban Arts
Initiative grant
recipient