Actor

Kara
Young

Kara Young holds the distinction of becoming the first Black performer to be nominated for a Tony four years in a row and winning the Tony two years consecutively. Broadway: Proof (Drama League nomination), Purpose (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Drama League nomination, Outer Critics Circle nomination), Purlie Victorious (Tony Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk Award, Drama League nomination), Cost of Living (Tony nomination), Clyde’s (Theatre World Award, Tony and Drama Desk nominations), Off-Broadway: The Whoopi Monologues, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Table 17 (Lucille Lortell Award), Twelfth Night (Obie Award), All The Natalie Portmans (Lucille Lortel nomination), Halfway Bitches Go Straight To Heaven, The New Englanders, The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d, Syncing Ink, and Pretty Hunger. Kara can be seen in Amazon’s I'm A Virgo (Breakthrough Performance Indie Spirit nomination). She can also be seen co-starring in Aleshea Harris’ Feature Film Is God Is.