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Vanessa Kai STAGE CREDITS

[Off-Broadway]
Playwrights Horizons World Premiere, 2019
Performer

[Off-Broadway]
Ars Nova Original Off-Broadway Production, 2017
Performer

[Off-Broadway]
Second Stage Theatre Original Production, 2017
Millie Chan

[Off-Broadway]
Women's Project Theater Production, 0
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Vanessa Kai Awards and Nominations

The Lortels - 2018 - Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical

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THE VOICES IN YOUR HEAD, Site-Specific Play By Grier Mathiot And Billy McEntee, Adds Seats And A Performance


'The Voices in Your Head,' a site-specific dark comedy about a bizarre support group, adds seats and an extra performance at St. Lydia's in Brooklyn. Don't miss this intimate and unique theatrical experience.

THE VOICES IN YOUR HEAD Site-Specific Dark Comedy, to Premiere at St. Lydia's, a Progressive Brooklyn Church


'The Voices in Your Head' is an intimate and site-specific dark comedy premiering at St. Lydia's in Brooklyn. Featuring a talented cast, this play is a must-see for theater enthusiasts.

Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Reveals Casts and Creative Teams for the 2023 National Playwrights Conference


The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center has announced the casts and creative teams for the six plays being developed at the 2023 National Playwrights Conference.

Broadway Podcast Network Announces Stage Free Audio Plays


The Broadway Podcast Network, in association with Dorset Theatre Festival, willpresent Stage Free Audio Plays, two audio dramas created by and featuring today's most anticipated and celebrated actors, writers, and directors.

BWW Review: Contemporary American Theatre Festival's Listening Party for REDEEMED Yet Another Afternoon of Gripping Drama


Recently, CATF supporters gathered to hear one of playwright Chisa Hutchinson's latest pieces, a radio drama that was co-produced with the Vermont's Dorset Theatre Festival. Over a fine, inventively crafted lunch at one of Shepherdstown's newest restaurants, Alma Bea (near the railroad tracks, just a couple blocks from the town's main drag), we were all given headphones and were instantly immersed in a tense, emotionally-wrenching drama 'Redeemed.'

The CW Network Releases Primetime Listings for the Week of May 22nd


Below are the CW Network's Primetime listings for the week of May 22nd. All times in the schedules are EST. 

CW Primetime Listings Announced for the Week of April 24th


The CW has announced their Primetime listings for the week of April 24th. Check out the listing below. 

Cynthia Nixon, Kelli O'Hara & More to Take Part in WALL TO WALL SELECTED SHORTS


Symphony Space will present Wall to Wall Selected Shorts, a monumental celebration of short fiction, March 26 in Symphony Space’s Peter Jay Sharp theater in New York City (2537 Broadway at 95th Street).

Dorset Theatre Festival Launches Free Audio Plays with REDEEMED by Chisa Hutchinson


Dorset Theatre Festival will welcome their 2021 summer season with the release of their StageFree Audio Plays Series, beginning with Redeemed by Chisa Hutshinson, directed by Dorset's resident artist, Jade King Carroll.

Ali Stroker, Mykal Kilgore & More to Take Part in Playwrights Horizons 50th Anniversary Virtual Gala


Playwrights Horizons will present a 50th Anniversary Virtual Gala, June 23 at 8pm. This virtual event honors the organization’s storied past and fundraises for the vast potential of what’s to come.

Dorset Theatre Festival Announces 2021 Season of Live Performances and Audio Plays


Dorset Theatre Festival has announced its 44th Season, including the inaugural StageFree Audio Plays series, featuring new commissions by playwrights Theresa Rebeck and Chisa Hutchinson, and live main stage performances at the Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester, VT.

Two River Theater Concludes TWO RIVER RISING Online Benefit Reading Series 


Two River Theater concludes its online benefit reading series with Shakespeare's classic story of two young star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet. This modern verse translation by Hansol Jung will be live on Wed, Sept 30 with Act 1. Act 2, followed by a Q&A with the artists, will take place on Thurs, Oct 1 at 7PM EDT.

NAATCO Announces ROMEO AND JULIET as Second Production for National Partnership Project


NAATCO (National Asian American Theatre Company) has announced the second production for the NAATCO National Partnership Project (NNPP): Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, in a modern verse translation by Hansol Jung, in partnership with Two River Theater of NJ (TRT).

Neimah Djourabchi, Michelle Beck and More to Star in New York Premiere of RICHARD & JANE & DICK & SALLY


The Playwrights Realm (Founding Artistic Director Katherine Kovner and Producing Director Roberta Pereira) announced today the complete cast and creative team for the New York premiere of Noah Diaz's Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally, directed by Taylor Reynolds (who recently helmed Clubbed Thumb's acclaimed production of Will Arbery's Plano), April 3-May 2, at the Mezzanine Theatre at the A.R.T./New York Theatres (502 W 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019).

Baltimore Center Stage Has Announced the Cast for RICHARD & JANE & DICK & SALLY


Baltimore Center Stage has announced the cast and artistic team for the co-world premiere of Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally, the fourth mainstage offering of the theater's 2019/20 season. At once poignant and heart-wrenching, Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally takes an updated look at the classic world of 'Dick and Jane' from the childhood books, with an emotional twist---a world that is beginning to fracture for one dysfunctional and dissembling family.

Phoenix Best, Amber Iman, and More Among Latest Vassar Powerhouse Casting


Vassar & New York Stage and Film have announced additional casting for the highly anticipated 35th Powerhouse Season in Poughkeepsie, NY, which continues through Sunday, July 28.

Photo Flash: Clubbed Thumb's Production Of Zhu Yi's YOU NEVER TOUCHED THE DIRT Opens At The Wild Project


SUMMERWORKS, Clubbed Thumb's annual series of new plays is presenting YOU NEVER TOUCHED THE DIRT by Zhu Yi at The Wild Project (195 E 3rd Street) in Manhattan for a limited run through June 13. Opening night is tonight at 8:00 p.m.

Play On Shakespeare Announces Actors And Directors For PLAY ON!


Play On Shakespeare today announces an expansive list of compelling actors and dynamic directors confirmed to participate in the Play on! Festival, presented in association with Classic Stage Company (CSC) and Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF). Play on! features 39 readings of new, work-in-progress translations of Shakespeare's plays into contemporary modern English by some of today's most exciting playwrights-May 29-June 30 at the Lynn F. Angelson Theater at CSC (136 E. 13th Street). In 2015, Oregon Shakespeare Festival launched an ambitious 39-play, three-year commissioning project, Play on!, tasking 36 playwrights-more than half of whom were women and playwrights of color, each paired with a dramaturg-to translate Shakespeare's canon in celebration of the enduring impact of the Bard's work. Supported by a generous grant from the Hitz Foundation and inspired by long-time patron Dave Hitz's passion for Shakespeare, the project was and continues to be led by Lue Morgan Douthit. For more information, visit playonfestival.org.

BWW Review: Halley Feiffer Finds Symbolism In Her Real-Life Ailment With THE PAIN OF MY BELLIGERENCE


If you're like this male theatre critic, you'll spend the first twenty minutes or so of Halley Feiffer's The Pain of My Belligerence wondering why the woman at the center of the story is putting up with the atrocious immature behavior of the guy who's her arrogant and disrespectful dinner date. If you're like the woman who was my theatre companion for the evening, you'll know exactly what's going on.

Playwrights Horizons Presents Halley Feiffer's THE PAIN OF MY BELLIGERENCE


Playwrights Horizons presents playwright and performer Halley Feiffer's blistering dark comedy The Pain of My Belligerence, directed by Trip Cullman, March 29-May 12. Across eight years and three Presidential elections, this play Feiffer and Cullman's sixth collaboration holds the fraught power dynamics of a relationship up against the country's current tug-of-war of regression and profound awakening regarding gender. Feiffer's winsomely vicious writing (The New York Times) reaches new heights in this world premiere production, a Playwrights Horizons' Harold and Mimi Steinberg Commission. Cullman's direction of Feiffer's work has been praised for evoking open-wound performances steered as close to festering as audiences' stomachs allow (The New York Times). In The Pain of My Belligerence, Feiffer and Cullman wield the cutting social humor they've honed through six years of work together to shed light on how we perpetuate our roles within a patriarchal culture, looking towards the promise of a new paradigm.

Vanessa Kai FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What awards has Vanessa Kai been nominated for?

Vanessa Kai has been nominated for the Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical award at The Lortel Awards for her role in KPOP.

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