13: Artist Spotlight! - Kila Packett

<div>Bailey sits down with TV and Stage Actor Kila Packett for another Artist Spotlight!<br> <br> Kila has an extensive background in classical theatre ranging from Shakespeare (<em>As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night</em>) to Tennessee Williams (<em>A Streetcar Named Desire</em>). Off-Broadway and regional theatres include: Mark Taper Forum, The Wallis, BAM, Classic Stage Company, Pearl Theatre Company, Crossroads Theatre Company, and Theatricum Botanicum. He has created roles by established playwrights: James Baldwin, Harrison Rivers, Sibusiso Mamba, Lynn Manning, and Blaire Baron. He has worked with acclaimed directors: Sir Peter Hall, Liv Ullmann, Debbie Allen, Diane Paulus, Anne Bogart, and Andrei Serban. He is the co-author of <em>Unnatural Acts </em>(Drama Desk, Lucille Lortell, GLAAD nominations). Television credits include: "<em>Grey’s Anatomy</em>," "<em>Hawaii Five-0," "This Is Us,"</em> "<em>S.W.A.T.</em>," "<em>Shooter</em>," "<em>Counterpart</em>," and "<em>Wisdom of the Crowd</em>." </div> <div> <br> <br> </div> <div>Kila is a head mentor with Young Storytellers, Associate Director of Shakespeare Youth Festival LA &amp; Kenya, and co-producer of the LA-based concert series, <em>A Little New Music</em>. He is a Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center fellow and holds a MFA from Columbia University's School of the Arts. For more information on Kila's work with Shakespeare in Kenya please read: <a href="https://www.americantheatre.org/2020/01/28/all-kenyas-a-stage-shakespeare-in-africa/">AMERICAN THEATRE ARTICLE</a> </div>