Holding an MFA in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence College, Lyralen Kaye is a Meisner-trained actor, passionately committed to acting as a revelation of multi-dimensional humanity in all its absurdity and drama. Her performances have been described and “compelling” and “powerful,” giving her characters “a sense of mystery.” Whether in drama or comedy improv—her other love—she subtly, through the arc of a performance, reveals her character’s secrets.

Lyralen began her professional acting career as a slam poet in Boston in 1997. In her first competition, she placed in the semi-finals; 3 slams and 6 months later, she won the women’s finals. From there, she began to receive requests for solo performances in New England colleges, coffeehouses and theatres. After performing shows composed of monologues and poetry, she began to study the techniques of movement theatre, and from those techniques created the one-woman play, Hail Mary, which was produced in Kennebunk, Maine.

In 1999, Lyralen auditioned for and joined the Boston theatre troupe The Improbable Players, where she worked on shows and taught drama workshops in area high schools. At the same time she was offered a full scholarship in the theatre program at Brandeis University, where she studied playwriting and acting. In the summer of 2000, she landed the roll of Madeleine in Tomboy, which ran in both Boston and at the NY Fringe Festival.

Lyralen then transferred to Sarah Lawrence College, where she completed her MFA in Theatre. Following graduation, she landed the leading roles in three independent films between 11/2002 and 8/2003 before moving into the Boston theater scene. There she founded the theater and film company, Another Country Productions, which produces innovative and multicultural new works. In addition to acting in theater and film, she leads the company, teaches classes in the Meisner technique, is building a Meisner-based theater ensemble and has begun to consider projects in film. She is strongly committed to a life of acting in both theatre and film that expresses an integrity of vision—one committed to social justice and finding new forms to express all aspects of the human condition.

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