Kelsey Yuhara

Creative Engagement Associate

Kelsey Yuhara studied Theatre at Whitman College (BA) and Site Specific Performance at Mountview (MA) and has contributed to various performances, training programmes and collectives as a performer, improvisor, producer, administrator, facilitator and director in the USA, Turkey, Iran, Italy and currently the UK. Common themes across the various strands of her work include multiculturalism, the legacy of both recent and more remote history, environmentalism, feminism, and the representation of marginalised voices.

Recent projects include project management for Border Crossings The Mouth of the Gods (2024), creative engagement for Teatro Vivo’s "Artist of Change" Lewisham Borough of Culture project (2022), producing Bernadette Russell’s play, The Creek, aboard the Cutty Sark (2022), directing and adapting the Japanese novel Radio Imagination for the online immersive experience (2023), and creating and directing the new interactive festive production Your Christmas Carol Experience (2023). She performs regularly in London with the UK's first pan-Asian improv team, Comediasians, and throughout the UK with CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation.