Kendall Cafaro

Actor. Singer. Maker.

About Me

Born and raised in West Bloomfield, Michigan, about a 45 minute drive from Detroit, depending on traffic. I grew up playing soccer, practicing martial arts, building haphazard bridges in the woods behind my house and watching a lot of Nick at Night. My first loves were the movie musical (Rent, Dreamgirls, Chicago), the 80s/ 90s Rom Coms, Jon Hughes films, and art that featured women in community (League of Their Own, Golden Girls), all of which I watched with my Grandma.

Based in New York City. I am passionate about heightened language stories that explore identity and inheritance. I'd say my favorite theater is impolite, infused with love, and often a kind of orchestrated chaos in pursuit of truth. Since graduating from College, Shakespeare's works have been and continue to be a big part of my artistic and professional life. I am endlessly amused by how a text written over 400 years ago, can still be provocative and probing to our conditions of today.

I am currently in my last year at NYU Grad Acting, where I am having a great time.

Recent Goings On

Final Year at NYU Grad Acting, Meet the Class of 2026!

Excited to share that I will playing Roxane in Martin Crimp's Cyrano de Bergerac directed by Jackson Gay.

September 25th - 28th at the African Grove Theater. Link to Tickets

This Past Summer

I had the opportunity to spend the summer studying Shakespeare at Oxford through BADA's Midsummer in Oxford Program

Spring 2025 at NYU Grad Acting

My friend and collaborator, Bianca Rogoff, and I received a grant from NYU Tisch to collaborate with Grad Design, Grad Dramatic Writing, and Grad Film for our adaptation of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus entitled Tell Them My Dreadful Name.

<<---- Picture from that Project, taken by Mick Bongiovi

I had the opportunity to play Lady Nijo and Win in Caryll Churchill's Top Girls directed by Janet Zarish