Kim is excited to be back in Houston after fourteen years away.

Throughout the years Kim has worked as an actor, director, teacher, producer and writer. Kim grew up in Houston , Texas where she studied acting/directing at the University of Houston . Part of her education and training there included working with Jose' Quintero, Edward Albee and Sidney Berger (Shakespeare). While studying in Texas she won an "Actress Excellence" award at the annual Texas College Play Festival in 1992 for her portrayal of Sarah in Children of a Lesser God . In Texas she also appeared in productions of, Whose Life is it Anyway, Shadowbox, Steel Magnolias, Blind Date, Cabaret, Midsummer Night's Dream and Children's theater productions.

She moved to New York in the summer of 1993. During her years in New York she has had the privilege of studying and/or working with Gene Frankel, Seth Barrish, Lee Brock, Kevin Klein, F. Murray Abraham, George C. Wolfe, James Earl Jones, Kevin Klein and Marian Seldes to name a few. Kim was an officer of the New Mercury Theatre Company from 1994 to 1996 where she produced and acted (Sally) in the 1995 revival of Sam Shepard's, A Lie of the Mind .  She was also Artistic Director of the New York theatre company; Blue Sphere East, the sister company to the award winning Los Angeles theatre company; Blue Sphere Alliance.  Other favorite Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway credits include: Talk to me Like the Rain..., A Streetcar Named Desire, The Fifth of July, Fool For Love, Savage In Limbo, The Smell of the Crowd, Bed, Bawd & Beyond, Impassioned Embraces (Emotional Recall), Ctrl, Alt, Delete and Trust and most recently the Barrow Groups production Short Stuff Two and their production of her original One Woman Show , Inside Out. Kim also spent three and a half years in Los Angeles where she studied with Sandy Marshall and Larry Moss. Credits during her stay in LA include; The World Premiere of Children of Shame , The Interrogation, Masseur, Baby with the Bathwater, Check to Check, and The Foreigner . Kim can also been seen in the films; The Alarmist, The Big Lebowski and Sex Maniac as well as on Sunset Beach .

Kim has worked and studied continuously over the last 15 years with some of the greatest teachers and actors of our time. She is trained in the acting techniques of Konstantin Stanislavski and Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner and Lee Strasberg, in addition to her training with the current leading teacher professionals in NYC and LA.   She has taught Improvisation, script analysis and Scene Study classes from beginning to advanced levels over the last eight years.

My goal is to teach you not to inhibit who you are but to embrace it."

~Kim Tobin