The “effervescent” and “immediately endearing” Kim Blanck is an award-winning actor and filmmaker.
Houston Chronicle; Metro Weekly
Her short film Gloria made its world premiere at the 2025 Tribeca Festival, screened at BAM, and won both the Narrative Short Jury Award and the Audience Award at the Austin Asian American Film Festival. A 2026 Tiny Grant Fellow and the Cycle 7 Winner of the Shondaland x SeriesFest Women Directing Mentorship, she is currently developing the film adaptation of Jenna Dioguardi’s Nipples for Christmas, which was selected for the inaugural Tribeca x Lilly Vital Stories Incubator, and a dark comedy about magic with comedian Sarah Adelman.
As an actor, Kim has developed and starred in some of the American theater’s most anticipated world premieres in recent memory, including Dave Malloy’s Off-Broadway smash hit Octet and her “invigorating” Broadway debut in Shaina Taub’s Suffs (Metro Weekly). For her “standout” performance as the tattoo artist Maud Wagner in Max Vernon & Erin Courtney’s The Tattooed Lady, she received a 2023 Barrymore Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Musical (Philadelphia Inquirer).
Her work onscreen includes “East New York” (CBS), “WeCrashed” (Apple TV+), the final season of “New Amsterdam” (NBC), Call Jane opposite Elizabeth Banks, and a current national spot for Poshmark. Her voice can be heard on the original cast recordings of Suffs, Octet, and Alice by Heart; on Shaina Taub’s 2022 album “Songs of the Great Hill”; and in Liann Kaye’s award-winning miniseries, “The Blessing.”
Hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area, Kim holds her MFA in Acting from UC San Diego and her BFA from NYU Tisch. She has taught at NYU, Fordham, UCSD, and Webster University.
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