Kim Instenes works as a freelance costume and make-up designer in the Milwaukee/Chicago area. Professional design credits include The Giver, Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Magic Bicycle, Big the Musical and A Year with Frog and Toad at First Stage Milwaukee, Jeeves Intervenes, Art and Heroes at Milwaukee Chamber, Romeo and Juliet at Milwaukee Shakespeare, the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Renaissance Theatre Works, Utah Shakespearean Festival and the Racine Theatre Guild.  She is also the faculty Costume Designer at Carthage College.  Design work at Carthage includes the new play, Up The Hill by Keith Huff, Spring Awakening, Stage Kiss and new play, by Laura Jacqmin, Ghost Bike, as well as the world premiere of A Seat at the Table by award winning playwright and actress Regina Taylor, to name a few.  Kim holds an MFA in Costume Design and Technology from Ohio University, and a BA in Theatre from UW-Whitewater.