STARR KIRKLAND
Starr Kirkland (she/they) is a bi-coastal actor and spoken word artist. She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and the British American Drama Academy.
Starr continues to stay busy working on plays, readings, dance shows, spoken word performances, and programs with youth in the community. Her passion for the advancement of youth with the use of creative arts continues through her work in many programs that foster a creative, open, intellectual environment for young people to express themselves.
She works with Realize Your Beauty promoting positive body image through theatre arts, and performs an original one-woman show promoting literacy at The Morgan Library and Museum as Belle da Costa Greene.
In a topsy-turvy world, you can often find her upside down: whether it be in a silk, walking on her hands, or generally being strange in a corner.
COMPANY MEMBER
CURRENT PROJECTS
New Ambassadors Theatre Company’s FEARfest: HOT BLOOD SUNDAE by Aly Kantor
directed by Mia Anderson
October 26-29 @ 8:00 PM, October 29 @ 10:30 PM, October 30 @ 4:00 PM
TADA! Theater
New Light Theater Project presents INK'DWELL by Erin E. Adams
directed by Tabatha Gayle
September 29-October 16, 2022
59E59 Theaters
Ojai Playwrights Conference New Works Festival
Running While Black by Jahna Ferron-Smith
directed by Taylor Reynolds
Dramaturge: Sasha Emerson
Sunday, August 14 @ 3:00 PM
Matilija Auditorium
Tight Five by Jennifer Downes and John Peña Griswold
directed by John Peña Griswold
July 13, 15 @ 8:00 PM
July 16, 17 @ 4:00 PM
Cherry Lane Theatre
(And see fellow New Ambassadors Theatre Company members in Irregulars!)
The World Premiere of CRYING ON TELEVISION by R. Eric Thomas
directed by Reginald L. Douglas
May 31-June 26, 2022
Everyman Theatre
"This World Premiere comedy from Thomas, a Baltimore-based writer, humorist, and internet sensation, is both laugh-out-loud funny and beguilingly sweet. It’s a platonic rom-com about four strangers in an apartment building, the notion of loving TV characters as much as your real friends, and trying to form genuine friendship connections as adults."
Antu Yacob and Project Y present ALL HANDS ON DECK
Featuring work by Julienne Hairston, Lisa Strum, Bleu Beckford-Burrell, and up-and-comer Mahalet Tegenu
directed by Celestine Rae and Dennis Allen II
Begins June 26, 2022
The Apothetae/New American Voices Reading Series
Say It Ain't So by Nikki Brake-Silla on Saturday, May 21 @ 5:00 PM
The Life and Times of Stephen Hawking on Sunday, May 22 @ 5:00 PM
Queens Theatre
South Coast Repertory THE 2022 PACIFIC PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL:
HOW TO ROLL A BLUNT by Naomi Lorrain
directed by Colette Robert
dramaturg, Francisca Da Silveira
Friday, April 8 @ 4:00 pm PST
Segerstrom Stage
Ensemble Studio Theatre Youngblood Monday Lunch Episode 15: Love and Grief or the Mary Christmas Play
by Phanésia Pharel
directed by Mikhaela Mahony
RECENT WORK
New Ambassadors HEARTbroke 2022 festival
Sense by Serena Berman
directed by Bryn Herdrich
Project Y presents Women in Theatre Festival 2022 (Hybrid Two-Handers, Monologue Slam)
Blackbox by Amina Henry & #GirlPowerHour by Kaaron Briscoe
I Am an Island by Julienne Hairston
directed by Michole Biancosino
Bust (workshop presentation) by Judith Champion Playwriting Fellowship & Inaugural Recipient, Zora Howard
Manhattan Theatre Club
Write It Out! created by Donja R Love
Blurring Boundaries 2021 Festival: Binders by Erin Moughon
directed by Raquel Valiente
Pot Odds by Gabrielle Wagner
directed by Joy Kelly
HANG TIME by Zora Howard
Ensemble Studio Theatre Youngblood Monday Lunch Episode 7: How Will We Know When the Play Starts?
by Lily Houghton & Sofya Levitsky-Weitz
directed by Jake Beckhard
Seven Devils Playwrights Conference: Crying on Television by R. Eric Thomas
directed by Pascale Florestal
The Workshop Theater presents Words Matter Plays
The Seventeenth Chapel by Aditi Brennan Kapil
Old Furniture by Christina Ham
When the Sun Touches you the Monsters Die by Franky D. Gonzalez
All donations directly benefit Invisible Hands
(NY Times Critic's Pick) Exquisite Corpse Company: Zoetrope
by Leah Barker, Emily Krause, and Elinor T Vanderburg
co-directed by Porcia Lewis & Artistic Director Tess Howsam
developed as a part of John Drew Theater at Guild Hall's Artist in Residency
A national collaboration with presenters 59E59 Theaters’ Plays in Place Program, Center Theatre Group, Oregon Shakespeare Festival and co-commissioner Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College:
Black Feminist Video Game by Darrel Alejandro Holnes
directed by Victoria Collado
The Workshop Theater presents TELL ME I'M GORGEOUS AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Aaron Coleman
directed by Dominique Rider
All proceeds to The Audre Lorde Project
Adventure Player's Live: Sharing Space in Outer Outer Space
Livestreamed March 2021