About Kaya

Kaya Bucholc ('kaɪ.ʌ 'bu.hɒlts ) is a London, UK based actor from Toronto, Canada, with her BFA(Honours) in Acting from York University (2014) and a Masters Degree in Classical Acting from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA, 2018).   

Most recently Kaya’s full length play Mary’s Daughters, about Mary Wollstonecraft, which she wrote and performed in had a successful run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2025, for which they won a Fringe Theatre Award, following its world premiere production at The Space Theatre in London, March 2024. 

Kaya currently has several pieces of writing for theatre in development as well as some short screenplays. For film: she co-wrote, co-produced, and co-starred in a short film called The Weïrd Sisters (2024), which is based on the witches of Macbeth and was entirely shot and recorded physically and phonetically backwards and has also written and co-starred in the micro-short Never Been Ghosted (2022). 

Beginning during the 2020 summer lockdown and continuing until the end of COVID in 2023, Kaya took part in Will&Co.’s production of Bard in the Yard (King Leonardo) and Bard in the Yard (The Scottish Play); two separate hour-long solo Shakespeare shows playing in people’s private gardens as socially distanced summer theatre, and then later in theatres, offices, gardens and town halls all across England (2020-2023). In October 2019 Kaya performed in The House of Yes at the Hope Theatre in London, which received many 5 star reviews and won the London Pub Theatre’s Standing Ovation Award for “Outstanding Theatricality.”

In 2024 Kaya joined BiLLO Studio, a film, theatre and video production company, as the Associate Director of Art & Operations, which she runs with her husband, Billy Steel.
Kaya also has a great love for English literature, logic puzzles, trivia, and nature. She continues to live and work in London.