Kayla prestel

NYC-based Puppeteer, AEA Actor, and Certified Pilates and Yoga Instructor

Off-Broadway: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show (Theater Row), Pips Island (Times Square/The Pod Hotel), Chasing Andy Warhol (Bated Breath Theatre Co).

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New York: Packrat (Dixon Place), The Death of Balder (St. Ann’s Warehouse - Labapolooza), Food for the Gods (La Mama), Are You Allice (The Tank), Puppet Playlist (Sinking Ship Prod.), Women of Puppetry (NYC Puppet Fringe/Teatro SEA) The Morningtime of Now (FringeNYC)

International: Are You Alice (Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2019)

Regional: Packrat (Flint Repertory Theatre) The Tempest (Touchstone Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Diary of Anne Frank (Riverside Theater), The Museum of Music, (Mock Turtle Marionette Theater).

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Other: Kayla recently performed as a mime at The Bass Museum of Art (Miami, FL) in Davide Balula’s conceptual project, Mimed Sculptures.

Education: Kayla completed a year-long apprenticeship in physical theater with Touchstone Theater in Bethlehem, PA and studied puppetry with Mock Turtle Marionette Theater. Bachelor’s of Special Studies: Theatre and Entrepreneurism from Cornell College.

Unions: AEA Member, SAG eligible