Kathleen Kim

Kathleen Kim (born 1979 or 1980) is an American actress and puppeteer, best known for her puppeteering work on Sesame Street.

Career Kim began studying puppetry while working in reality television as a story producer.

In 2014, she took a Sesame Puppetry Workshop, and was later brought on to Sesame Street as a puppetry assistant. She performed in Once Upon a Sesame Street Christmas in 2016. In 2017, she and three other performers joined Sesame Street’s first Mentorship Program. Kim took on a consulting producer for the 2021 special "See Us Coming Together,” in which she also performed Ji-Young in her debut as the series' first Asian-American muppet.

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