Kimi Maeda is a theatre artist.

Kimi Maeda is a theatre artist currently working in South Carolina.  Her most recent piece, The Crane Wife, is an original adaptation of a traditional Japanese folktale using handcrafted shadow puppets.  She designed the sets and/or costumes for Serenbe Playhouse’s John and Jen and Shakespeare’s R+J, Pig Iron Theatre’s The House Where Nobody Lives, Visible Theatre’s Krankenhaus Blues, Pilgrim Theatre’s N, Goshen College’s Much Ado About Nothing, Theatre South Carolina’s  Cyrano de Bergerac, The Violet Hour, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Trojan Women, Polaroid Stories, The Crucible, Othello, The Real Inspector Hound, and Baltimore Theatre Project’s Looking for Lulu. Kimi worked as a puppeteer and set designer for the Columbia Marionette Theatre, writing and directing Snow White, The Little Mermaid, and Lakon Dewa Ruci. Kimi received her MFA in scenic design from the University of South Carolina and was the recipient of the 2005 Rose Brand Award from the United States Institute of Theatre Technology.  Her work was shown as part of the USA professional design exhibition at the Prague Quadrennial, an international festival of theatre design.  She received her MA in Scenography from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London where she wrote, directed, and designed Even Clairvoyants Need to Eat, The Lonely Lexicon, and Glimpse of a Shapeshifter. Kimi received her BA in studio art from Williams College.