Ari Kim (she/her)
Lighting designer
Lighting designer
As a lighting designer and a theatre artist, I am drawn to the emotional and sensory language of performance—the ways light, movement, sound, shape, and even silence speak without words.
Theatre is a fleeting art. Its beauty lives in a single moment, and then disappears. But I believe light can hold onto something from that moment—a feeling, a rhythm, a breath—and let it linger just a little longer.
I gather from memory—mine and my collaborators’—and use those shared impressions to create light that listens and responds. I follow impulses, like white noise or wildfire, to discover what we are truly trying to say.
Currently, I am working in the theatre industry to bring these ideas to light—shaping sensory-driven, collaborative performances that resonate beyond the moment of performance.