Benjamin Akio Kimitch is an artist and producer living in Brooklyn, NY.

Kimitch is the recipient of a 2024 Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, 2023 Bessie Award for Outstanding Choreographer/ Creator, and a Mertz Gilmore Foundation Dancer Award. In NYC, his commissioned works have been presented by The Shed (Bessie Award), The Noguchi Museum, The Kitchen, Roulette, Danspace Project (Bessie Nomination) and at Princeton University. He has been awarded artistic residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Movement Research, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University, and others.

Since 2023, he has collaborated with choreographer Yasuko Yokoshi in an ongoing U.S. and Japan research project. Other creative collaborators have included dancers Pareena Lim, Julie McMillan Castellano, Lai Yi Ohlsen, and Claire Westby; designers Kathy Kaufmann, James Kidd, Carlos Soto, TOME, and Serena Wong; and dramaturg Jeffrey Gan.

Alongside an active artistic career, Kimitch has also held full-time positions at internationally-renowned New York City institutions dedicated to new work in the performing arts. As a producer, Kimitch has advanced new works by artists including Laurence Fishburne, David Henry Hwang, Huang Ruo, Bill T. Jones, Tamar-kali, Joan Jonas, Martine Gutierrez, Hannah Black, Yve Laris Cohen, Bjarne Melgaard, Sarah Michelson, among countless others, and remounts by Penny Arcade and Diamanda Galás. At the Park Avenue Armory, Kimitch was production coordinator for two seasons, working directly with artists including Peter Sellars, Hélène Grimaud, the D.R.E.A.M. Ring, and Paris Opera Ballet Étoiles. Kimitch is currently Producer for new opera, music, theater and dance at the Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) located at the World Trade Center.