Kara Young

Kara Young is an American actress. She has been nominated twice for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play: in 2022 for her role of Letitia in Clyde's and in 2023 for her role of Jess in Cost of Living. Early life and education Young was born and raised in Harlem in New York City. Both of her parents emigrated from Belize. Her father, Klay Young, began working in the Rainbow Room in 30 Rockefeller Plaza in 1992 as a server and later captain (a place where Kara would eventually attend a special event for Tony Award nominees). Her mother worked in health administration in Bellevue Hospital. Young had an interest in performing from the age of five, when she learned to mime in an afterschool program at the 92nd Street Y. She briefly went to Gettysburg College and the City College of New York before studying at the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, where she graduated. She studied traditional theater in Thailand for a month in 2008.