Kim Weild

Kim Weild is a Drama Desk Award-nominated American theatre director, educator, writer, actor and choreographer.

Among her many collaborators and associates are Anne Bogart (SITI Co.), Diane Paulus, Tina Kronis and Richard Algers, George Balanchine, Caryl Churchill, Max Stafford-Clark, Simon Curtis, André Gregory, Antoinette LaFarge, Judith Malina, Larry Moss, Mike Nichols, George Morrison, Sabrina Peck, Richard Schechner, Paul Sills, Tadashi Suzuki and Robert Wilson.

In 2017 she directed the world premier of playwright Charles Mee's Soot and Spit about deaf outsider artist James Castle.

At the Cherry Lane Theatre she directed the first New York revival of Mee's First Love,[2] starring Academy Award nominee Michael O'Keefe and Angelina Fiordellisi.

Additional directing credits include Mee's Big Love, Harold Pinter's A Kind of Alaska as part of the inaugural NY Live Arts/Live Ideas which celebrated the work of Oliver Sacks,[3] the Off-Broadway world premiere of Luigi Creatore's An Error of the Moon, Uncle Vanya (Official selection Prague Quadrennial), Kaddish by Allen Ginsberg for the New York International Fringe Festival,[4] The Good Woman of Setzuan with original music by Two Star Symphony,[5] My Fair Lady,[6] Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Endgame, Andrea Lepcio's A Peddler's Tale: Buttons, Guts and Bluetooth,[7] as the Foeller Fellow she created a new conceptualization of Paradise Now for the Williamstown Theater Festival, and A Decade of Dreams: Celebrating the Music of the Young People’s Chorus of New York at Carnegie Hall.