Hey y’all! Welcome to the Theatre Artist Podcast | Diving Into the Craft and Business for Theatre Artists. 

Today’s conversation is with Kendyl Yokoyama whom I’ve had the privilege to perform with and witness her greatness in person. Kendyl grew up in L.A. dancing, singing, and acting in many community and regional theatre productions as well as a number of short films and a Skrillex music video. Kendyl attended Boston Conservatory before leaving to be a swing and later a Peggy understudy on the Hamilton Angelica tour. Before she left, we were in A Chorus Line together (she played Connie and I Cassie), she was in Allegiance at SpeakEasy Stage Company (as Peggy), and we were also in the dance ensemble of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at school together before she took a leave of absence to perform on the 90th Academy Awards in the Greatest Showman performance of “This is Me”. 

A few things to note before we get into the episode; we reference some people that I will have linked for you and talk about during the Fact Check, but I wanted to mention them at the top so that you have some reference. Again, we reference Larry Sousa, who was referenced in the episode with Rachel. He teaches at Boston Conservatory and in the Boston area. We also talk about our experience in A Chorus Line and I refer to Eliza, Eliza Richards who was our Sheila. We talk a lot about Hamilton and we mention our friend Sean Jones who was in the Angelica tour as Samuel Seabury and her roommate and fellow swing Alaina Maderal, who is mutual friends with our friend from BoCo, Trent Tyson. About ¾ the way through the episode, I refer to Gene Kelly and if you don’t know who he is, just stop the episode right now and educate yourself because he is the movie musical god of the Golden Age of Hollywood...along with Fred Astaire, but maybe I’ll need to make a separate episode about them. I’m so happy that I could catch up with Kendyl, highlight how wonderful of a person and friend she is, and talk about some of our audition struggles, social media, and how important it is to own who you are. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did. 

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