Kim’s academic training includes a BFA in Restoration and History of Applied Arts from the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York. She is an actor, singer, costumer and dancer who trained and performed from an early age with the School of American Ballet and the Eglevsky Ballet in New York, as well as with the visiting Bolshoi Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet. Ms. Hanley is also an accomplished costumer whose specialty is historical fashion. She has costumed for Many of the Nation’s top historical Interpreters and historical sites such as George Washington’s Mount Vernon. On a lighter note, she includes among her “bigger” clients The Philly Phanatic.
Kim began interpreting Abigail with AHT from 1997 and now has added Abigail Adams, Betsy Ross, Molly Pitcher, Alice Roosevelt and Annie Oakley, to her retinue. Ms. Hanley has appeared at the White House Visitors Center, National Archives, National Portrait Gallery, and many others.
Characters portrayed by Kim Hanley:
1700’s: Abigail Adams, Dorothy Quincy Hancock, Annis Boudinot Stockton, Betsy Ross, Molly Pitcher,
1800’s: Mary Pickersgill, Eliza Goodfellow, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Annie Oakley,
1900’s: Alice Roosevelt, Alice Roosevelt’s Maid: Anna, Grace Coolidge, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, The Harvey Girls: Go West