Kim Gunning

Kim Gunning was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She began her theater career in 1984 as a stage manager, eventually specializing in opera stage management. During this time, she worked extensively in South Africa, the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. In 1998, she began working with the Handspring Puppet Company as a stage manager on their productions of Il Ritorno d’Ulisse and Ubu and the Truth Commission; William Kentridge was the stage director for both of those productions. In 2000, Gunning moved to Chicago, where she worked as the production stage manager for Chicago Opera Theater. When Kentridge was commissioned to direct a new version of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte for the Royal Theatre of La Monnaie in Brussels in 2004,
he asked Gunning to join his creative team as video controller. Since then, she has been part of his production team, with credits also including Refuse the Hour, The Nose, Winterreise, Lulu, Wozzeck, The Head & the Load, Sibyl, Oh To Believe in Another World, and, most recently, The Great Yes, The Great No.