Kurt Kanazawa is an award-winning actor, opera singer, and playwright.
East West Players’ PACIFIC OVERTURES, directed by Tim Dang
LA Times’ Top SoCal Production 2024
Theatremania Top 5 Production (outside NYC) 2024
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BIO
Kurt Kanazawa is an award-winning actor, opera singer, and playwright. TV/Film credits include Grey’s Anatomy, Bosch: Legacy, The Lincoln Lawyer, A Life in Pieces: The Diary & Letters of Stanley Hayami (Tribeca Festival, Festival de Cannes, Japanese American National Museum exhibit), and No No Girl.
Post-graduate studies at The Juilliard School (GD, Vocal Arts), Manhattan School of Music (MM, Voice), and UC-Irvine (MFA, Acting - in progress), he has appeared on major Asian American stages like East West Players (Pacific Overtures & AZN BALLERZ, solo show) and off-broadway at Pan Asian Repertory (L’OPERA!, solo show). Regional theatre credits include Los Angeles LGBT Center, Rogue Artists Ensemble, Ojai Playwrights Conference, LA Theatre Works, BBC Radio, Detroit Public Theatre, Boston Court Pasadena, Latino Theatre Company, and Artists at Play. Notably, his uncle, Simeon Den, was in the original broadway cast of Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures.
Kurt also holds a BA from Columbia University (Concentration, Visual Arts), where he studied photography with Thomas Roma and voice with Spiro Malas and Marlena Malas. Kurt is represented by Joseph Le Talent Agency, Imperium 7 Talent Agency, & Black Box Management.
@kurtkanazawa
L’OPERA!
Solo Show
Los Angeles dates TBA 2025
World Premiered Off-Broadway @ Pan Asian Repertory
Co-directed by Jeff Liu & Kalina Ko
COMING SOON
MASTER CLASS
Sierra Madre Playhouse
Feb. 14 - Mar. 9, 2025
RECENT PRESS
EIGHT NIGHTS
As Steven in Jennifer Maisel’s play “Eight Nights” at Detroit Public Theatre
“The dynamic Kurt Kanazawa gets a real scene-stealing moment during the show that draws applause.”
RECENT PRESS
HAPPY FALL: A QUEER STUNT SPECTACULAR
As FELIX in Lisa Sanaye Dring’s world premiere play.
“…such raw vulnerability, grace, charm, and pathos…” - Edward Hong, The Nerds of Color
Rafu Shimpo Feature pt. 1
Rafu Shimpo Feature pt. 2
”Kurt Kanazawa’s body control was as evocative as any modern dance piece I have ever seen.” - Todd Gaebe, Hollywood Revealed
RECENT PRESS
6x AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award Winner
“Kurt Sanchez Kanazawa gives a standout performance as Twitchy, whose liveliness and joyful personality are eventually challenged by horrifying experiences fighting for the U.S. overseas. ”
New 6-part audio drama by Iris Yamashita (Academy Award Nominee - Letters from Iwo Jima)
As SONNY, a nisei soldier from Maui, Hawai’i
Opera Singer
Opera Singer
Hailed by The New York Times for his “smoky-toned” voice and by Opera News for “villainy swathed in velvet,” he has studied with acclaimed singers like Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Spiro Malas, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson, and Marilyn Horne, amongst others. His misdiagnosis of Vocal Dystonia was also featured in The Juilliard Journal and his off-broadway one-man show “L’OPERA!”at Pan Asian Rep.
CONTACT
THEATRE (NYC + CHI)
Stewart Talent
Theatre: Jim McCaffrey
724-255-8652
TV/Film: Todd Turina
312-943-3131
MANAGEMENT
Black Box Management
point : Lowell Shapiro
424-258-4204
TV / FILM (LA + NYC)
Joseph Le Talent Agency
point : Joseph Le
818-973-2705
COMMERCIAL (LA)
Imperium 7 Talent Agency
point : Steven Neibert
818-940-3588
VOICE ACTING & AUDIOBOOKS
Imperium 7 Talent Agency
point : Steven Neibert
818-940-3588
PRINT (MID-WEST)
Stewart Talent
point: Maher Naser
312-572-6103