Twenty questions.(Willa Kim)(Interview)

Costume designer WILLA KIM, a two-time Tony-winner, recently designed Dance Theatre of Harlem's St. Louis Woman and Bay Street Theatre's Our Town in Sag Harbor, N.Y. She spoke to American Theatre in her plush Upper West Side apartment. ********** What do you always have with you when you design? Obviously, a pencil and some paint.

(Laughs) They seem essential--unless it's something last minute that I do on any scrap of paper or an envelope. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Were you from the first or second generation of Chinese Americans? I'm second ...

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