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).
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.” 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).
Her career as a writer begin in 2019, and currently has several pieces of writing for theatre in development. She has written and co-starred in the micro-short Never Been Ghosted (2022), and co-wrote, co-produced, and co-starred in The Weïrd Sisters (2024). Kaya also wrote and performed in Mary’s Daughters, a play about Mary Wollstonecraft, that had its world premiere production at The Space Theatre in March 2024 and will be going to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer 2025.
In 2024 Kaya joined BiLLO Studio, a film and theatre production company, as the Associate Director of Art & Operations.
Kaya also has a great love for 19th century English literature, logic puzzles, trivia, and nature. She continues to live and work in London.
