Clyde's Tickets

Kara Young made her Broadway debut in Lynn Nottage’s Clyde’s for which she received a Tony nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play. The New York Times called her performance “quick witted” and The Hollywood Reporter hailed her as “outstanding.” She recently received the inaugural Florence Mills Rising Star Awards at the first ever Black Women on Broadway ceremony. She will next appear as a series regular in I’m A Virgo for Amazon, created by Boots Riley. Young can previously be seen in the Amazon feature Chemical Hearts alongside Lilli Reinhart and Austin Abrams. Prior to this, she appeared in HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness and Netflix’s The Punisher. She also starred in Hair Wolf, the winner of the Sundance 2018 Short Film Jury Awards: US Fiction. Before the pandemic, Kara was starring in the MCC Theater’s All The Natalie Portmans, for which she received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination. Her many other stage credits include Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven, The New Englanders, The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d, Syncing Ink, and Pretty Hunger. She also appeared in four seasons of MTV’s Girl Code. She can currently be seen on the HBO Max original The Staircase.