Jun Kim, a native of Japan with Korean heritage, is an actor, director and dancer. He worked with Jim Simpson, Artist Director of the Bat Theater Company and founder of the Flea Theater. Jun is an original member of the Bat Theater and has worked and collaborated with Jim Simpson and the Bat Theater for their six productions. He attended Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris and Theatre de Complicite in London. He has also studied with Terese Haydon, Jacqueline Brooks who are faculty of Circle in the Square Theatre school and original members of Actors Studio in New York.
He was an assistant for Yoshi Oida's direction of Curlew River in New York. He has performed in Japan, Holland, Germany, Singapore, Russia, and the US. His theater credits include, “Heavenly Bento” with Post Theater performed at Japan Society in NY, Berlin, Bonn, Singapore, “Hold the Clock” with Yoshiko Chuma, "Saran ~people~" in Tokyo, Japan, "Marie Galante" by Kurt Weill with Opera Francais de New York, the one man play "Dust Storm" by Rick Foster, "Natsu Matsuri" with Nakamura Kanzaburo's Heisei Nakamuraza Kabuki Theater performed at the Lincoln Center Festival directed by Kazuyoshi Kushida, "Foreign Exchange" with Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, "Luna", "Portrait", "Ballad of Yachiyo" by Philip Kan Gotanda, "Benten Kozo" directed by Jim Simpson(Obie), "The Return of the Chocolate Smeared Woman" with Karen Finley, "Cellophane" by Mac Wellman, "Handel's Messiah" directed by Eric Fraad, "Sotoba Komachi" by Yukio Mishima, "Velvet Rat", "Sake with the Haiku Geisha", "The Country Girl", "Splatter"(opposite Jacqueline Brookes) directed by Terese Hayden and more. His film and TV credits include "Manbiki G-man" with Nana Kinomi in Japan, "The Living Wake" with Jesse Eisenberg, "Limousine Drive", and "L Train to Brooklyn".
As a director, he has directed "The Uniform" by Kobo Abe, Kayoko Sakoh Dance's "Heart to Heart" dance performance in Japan, "Kutsukake Tokijiro" the staged reading of the play by Shin Hasegawa in New York. Jun Kim is a recipient of a grant from the Japan-US Arts Program of Asian Cultural Council in 2003 and studied Kabuki Theater's direction and staging with Kazuyoshi Kushida and Nakamura Kanzaburo, is an artistic director of the Heisei Nakamuraza in Japan.
