KAI JUSTICE ROSALES

Queer First-Gen Mixed-Race Performer

Kai has performed with La Jolla Playhouse, California Center for the Arts Escondido, Synecdoche Works, The Dramatists Guild of America, Seven Devils Playwrights Foundry, Feinstein's/54 Below, The Tank NYC, Green Room 42, and beyond! In the summer of 2022, Kai closed the world premiere musical Witnesses, originating the role of Moshe Flinker - singing the songs of Richard Rodgers Award winner Adam Gwon with direction by Broadway’s J. Scott Lapp, and a book by Tony-Winner Robert L. Freedman.

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RECENTLY: Closed Shakespeare’s As You Like It, featuring an all Queer/Trans/Non-Binary cast at La Jolla Playhouse! This production was directed by Tony-Award Winner Christopher Ashley and Hayes-Award Winner Will Davis!

Kai also originated the role of Guildford in a workshop of Jane The Queen: A Tudor Musical and acted opposite Jason Tam, Troy Leigh-Anne Johnson, and Badia Farha in a reading of a new play, both performed at The Dramatists Guild of America. Kai also finished a reading/workshop playing Lily Evangelion in A Faerie Tale of New York by Enid Brain. This new play won the Special Jury Prize for the Frank Moffet Mosier Fellowship at Synecdoche Works. 

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This spring, Kai originated the role of Roderick/The Stranger in Edgar Allan ShitPoeSt at The Tank NYC! They also have a priority feature in the music video for the new musical SUPERYOU - which has been produced regionally in the USA and in-concert on the UK’s West End.

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CURRENTLY: Kai was a resident actor with Seven Devils Playwrights Foundry in McCall, Idaho workshopping two new plays - Beautiful Blessed Child by Daria Miyeko Marinelli (dir. by Reena Dutt) and Anti-Hero: Revenge of the Swifties by Derick Edgren Otero (dir. by Carol Ann “Cat” Tan/David A. Miller)