In 2004 her interest in new play development lead her to start The Pen is a Mighty Sword International newplay competition. The winning play, Gray Area by John Ahlin, opened a six week run in Los Angeles on April 9. The first and second runner ups, In Search of a Better Life with Elvis by Kato McNickle and N by Laura Harrington, received staged readings at Wake Forest University in North Carolina in January of 2005.

Since then she and fellow company member, Shawn Ross, produced the premieres of both the 2005 winner, A Yankee Trader by Kato McNickle and the 2006 winner, Confessions of a Catholic Child.

In 2005 the company produced a reading series in conjunction with Stuart Rogers at Theatre Tribe in North Hollywood. The series read and staged plays from the 2005 honorable mention category of The Pen is a Mighty Sword.

Kim's play, Brother Brian Sister Kathleen premiered in Los Angeles in 2001. She then collaborated with Geraldine Hughes to develop and premiere the critically-acclaimed, Belfast Blues, which won four awards: two for performance, as well as the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for writing and best digital imagery. The show went on to other venues with other producers, including London then a run off-Broadway at The Culture Project on Bleecker Street.

Currently, Kim divides her time between writing VTP's audio theatre series, Wise Children, producing the Pen winners and working with VTP's literary manager, Whit Andrews on the Pen in a Mighty Sword International New Play competition. The 2007 competition just announced its first international first place winner, Despatch by New Zealand playwright, Angie Farrow. This play is scheduled for a spring 2008 production.

Kim has directed numerous plays in various venues including Doug Grissom's Phosphorous, Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, Susan Griffith's Voices, Marsha Norman's ‘night Mother, Bill Manhoff's The Owl and The Pussycat, Mamet's Prairie Du Chien and Shephard's Tooth of Crime. She also directed twelve selections from the Wakefield Mystery Plays and an adaptation of Archie and Mehitabel for the stage.

As an actress, Kim has played a wide variety of characters including Medea in Robinson Jeffer's translation of Medea, Blanche in Romantic Comedy, Ella in Curse of the Starving Class and Mary in the world premiere of Jack Gilhooley's, Shirley Basin.