Kim Katzberg is a New York City–based, NYIT Award–winning writer and performer creating genre-bending, darkly comedic theatrical work since 2010. Of her breakout solo show Penetrating the Space at HERE, The New York Times wrote that it "has a glowing, vulnerable, haunting center."
Her original work has been performed at The Bushwick Starr, Ars Nova, BAX, The Brick Theater, La MaMa, Wild Project, and Dixon Place. Strays won the 2016 NYIT Award for Outstanding Original Short Script and is published in The Best American Short Plays, 2015–2016 (Applause Books). Dad in a Box won the 2019 NYIT Award for Outstanding Solo Performance.
Her short film Like Going to a Hardware Store for Bread, which she co-wrote and stars in, premiered at the 2023 New York Shorts International Film Festival, won Best Short Comedy at the City of Angels Women's Film Festival, and had its international premiere at the London Independent Film Festival 2024. Her TV pilot was a Quarterfinalist in the 2024 Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest and a Semi-Finalist in the Cinequest Screenwriting Competition. In May 2024 she performed an excerpt of her solo work at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre NY.
Katzberg had a Project Week residency at Mercury Store in 2025 and returns for a Project Week residency in November 2026. She is a 2026 Winter/Spring Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellow in Playwriting. BFA in Acting, NYU/Tisch's Experimental Theatre Wing; MFA in Acting, Columbia University.