Kara Young

Kara Young

Kara Young made her Broadway debut in Lynn Nottage’s Clyde’s for which she received a Tony and a Drama Desk Nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play. This year, Young received her second Tony and Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play in the Pulitzer Prize winner, Cost of Living. Her other accolades include: an Obie Award, an Audelco Award and a Drama Desk nomination for her portrayal of Viola in Classical Theatre of Harlem's, Twelfth Night; the inaugural Florence Mills Rising Star Award from Black Women on Broadway and a Theatre World Award. Her other stage credits include All The Natalie Portmans, Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven, The New Englanders, The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d, Syncing Ink, Pretty Hunger and Purlie Victorious. She will next appear as a series regular in the highly anticipated Amazon series, I’m a Virgo, created by Boots Riley. Previous TV credits include: HBO Max’s The Staircase; Amazon’s feature Chemical Hearts; HBO's Random Acts of Flyness; and Netflix's The Punisher.