Kim Walsh

Kim Walsh has been teaching and coaching at the Rady School of Business since the Spring of 2024. She has been on the Acting faculty of UCSD’s Department of Theatre and Dance since 2002.  As a theatre practitioner she has acted, directed and taught theatre throughout the country and abroad as well as locally at the Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse and Kaiser Permanente, where she was director of Theatre Workshop. Some of her recent directing credits include the UCSD productions of Our Town, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, and for the Wagner New Play Festival Other People and Sin Eaters. As a performer she has appeared in film, television and regional theatres including the Signature Theatre in New York City and locally at La Jolla Playhouse, where she was in the original productions of Fortinbras, by Lee Blessing (awarded Time Magazine’s Best 10 Plays of the Year), and the musical Elmer Gantry, directed by Des McAnuff. Kim is a founding member of the Elysium Theater Company in New York, where she performed in many classic and existential German plays. She is a member of Actor’s Equity, SAG and AFTRA.

Kim is an Affiliate Artist with the UCSD Medical Community at the Sanford T. Denny Institute for Compassionate Communication, an organization of physicians and artists who join together to train medical doctors, nurses and medical students to utilize Actor training skills to deepen their communication abilities and to develop compassion with patients, peers and themselves.

Education
MFA Professional Acting Training Program, University of California, San Diego
B.A. Theater and Education, Emerson College

Instructional Area
Marketing 

Classes Taught
MGTA 402: Data Driven Communications