Kim Donovan(II)
- Producer
- Actress
- Writer
Kim was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Dorothy and Wayne Donovan.
She started taking dance classes at the age of four and continued
studying dance into adulthood. She had her first acting class at the
Pittsburgh Playhouse in the 9th grade, but mainly focused on dance over
the next few years. After graduating high school she went on to study
acting and voice at various schools in Orlando and Daytona Beach,
Florida, eventually earning a BA in Theatre at the University of
Central Florida. She minored in Creative Writing, and also attended the
Southeast Center for Photographic Studies, concentrating mostly on
Portraiture photography. She performed in shows at Orlando area dinner
theaters, attractions, and theme parks for several years before moving
to New York City. In Orlando she performed as a can-can dancer at Rosie
O'Grady's in downtown Orlando, performed in award-winning year-round
haunted attractions Terror on Church Street and Skull Kingdom, and
performed in various shows and was a dance captain at Universal
Studios. After graduating college she moved to NYC where she studied
dance at Broadway Dance Center, and studied voice and improv acting at
H.B. Studios. After doing a little bit of dinner theatre in NYC, she
focused her attention on Film and Television, and began working on
student films,feature films and TV shows. After 3 1/2 years in NYC Kim
moved to Los Angeles where she now routinely performs with a comedy
pirate troupe called Pirates for Hire under the direction of
film-industry stunt coordinator Ted Shred and continues to pursue work
in film and television.