meet kyra.

Kyra Tantao is a queer Latinx actor, musician, playwright, and creator currently residing in Brooklyn, New York.

credits include Dustin Guy Defa’s The Adults, the Disney feature, Zombies 3, AND NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. CLICK HERE FOR IMBD

In 2019 Kyra originated the role of ‘Morgan’ in the world premiere off broadway production of Orchid Receipt Service by Corinne Donly at MITU580. She also originated the role of ‘Jane’ in Natalie Margolin’s THE DAY the BUTCHER SHOP CLOSED, which won best production at the SheNYC Arts Theater Festival. Kyra is also featured in the Princess Nokia music video, Sugar Honey Iced Tea (S.H.I.T.)

Her original plays have been premiered by multiple theatre groups, such as The Cool Kids Wear Black Lipstick at GhostLight Theater Camp and The Tenants at Wardlaw + Hartridge School, which was also revised at ghostlight in july 2021.

sHE HOLDS A BFA IN THEATRE ARTS FROM BOSTON UNIVERSITY’S COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS SCHOOL OF THEATRE and she studied physical theatre at the Accademia dell'Arte in Arezzo, Italy.  

Kyra is the front woman and founder of the anti-establishment, punk band Monica Bang.

Kyra uses she/her pronouns.

PHOTO BY DIANA KING