Kira's pronouns are they/them and she/her. They were born and raised in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Their performing career began at age seven, when they marched up to their mother with an ad for the local community production of Carousel and told her, "We need to go to this."
Kira graduated with honours from the Canadian College of Performing Arts, and moved out to Toronto in 2011, where they continued to move between performance worlds. They discovered a particular aptitude for puppetry as Kate Monster/Lucy the Slut in the premiere Canadian cast of Avenue Q, and have made puppetry a central pillar of their career, both onstage and onscreen. Most recently they have provided puppetry for CBC Kids, TVOKids, and the Australia-based Flying Bark Productions. They recently received a Dora nomination for the turn as the Prince in The Little Prince: Reimagined, an adaptation of the classic book by Puzzle Piece, and during the COVID-19 pandemic have been working with their partner Ryan Couldrey on a series of short horror pieces. As a voice artist they've been in commercials for Tim Hortons, The Bay, Hotels.com, and Preakness Stakes, and as well as the voice of Wanda in the video game Skully.
They're also a writer, writing the solo play Paleoncology to the award-winning short film Farm is a Four-Letter Word. Active as a playwright and fledging screenwriter, they're always excited about the possibility for collaboration, especially with artists back home in the North.
They're other interests include puzzles, animated movies, things that are slightly spooky, cheese, and books that make them sad.
