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MARINA KONDO

Ragtime was about making space and reminding myself that our history exists, that I count too. Constantly reassuring myself that the piece can be made richer just by existing and showing up, no matter how big or small. All year, I have had a handful of stories shared with me from people who came to see our shows, and felt seen. I am so grateful for that- thank you. And of course, @morgankei, my love, to have shared this with you. For all the dreamers out there… Thank you Anthony Behar (@tony_brise) for @sipausa, and @bravestnazar
Goodbye Ragtime 🩵🪽

Ragtime was about making space and reminding myself that our history exists, that I count too. Constantly reassuring myself that the piece can be made richer just by existing and showing up, no matter how big or small. All year, I have had a handful of stories shared with me from people who came to see our shows, and felt seen. I am so grateful for that- thank you. And of course, @morgankei, my love, to have shared this with you. For all the dreamers out there… Thank you Anthony Behar (@tony_brise) for @sipausa, and @bravestnazar
Goodbye Ragtime 🩵🪽

My heart is so full. From beginning to end, this whole year was the most tremendous experience of my life. Happy closing to this precious story and transcendent company, my favorite artists and now life-long friends. We did it all, and we were so lucky. I will be forever changed and will keep this memory in my heart for a lifetime.

My heart is so full. From beginning to end, this whole year was the most tremendous experience of my life. Happy closing to this precious story and transcendent company, my favorite artists and now life-long friends. We did it all, and we were so lucky. I will be forever changed and will keep this memory in my heart for a lifetime.

post-bob with @sub_urban_photography
Hair: @thealexleyva

Thank you Amanda and Jake.
Never felt more like myself. 🖤

post-bob with @sub_urban_photography
Hair: @thealexleyva

Thank you Amanda and Jake.
Never felt more like myself. 🖤

everything hallelujah!!!!!!!

everything hallelujah!!!!!!!

Just in time to mark my 11th year in the union, I’m welcoming a new decade of my career by checking off another dream item on my list I have yet to check off- an official Principal contract on Broadway. Up to this point I think I have truly done it all- swinging, dance captaining, original shows, revivals, on Broadway, Off-Broadway, dungeon basement cool off-off-Broadway, the flashy corporates, tours, regional, originating tracks, replacement tracks, even translated/changed lyrics, and so much understudying… I’ve truly learned from THE BEST. I’ve had the highest of highs to balance the very low lows, and in no way have I arrived anywhere just because of this one opportunity, but when I stop and take a moment to reflect… I wouldn’t change a thing. Being in service of this art form and to have dedicated myself to every level of it makes this moment that much more sweeter and peaceful. I am so grateful. When people open that playbill, I hope they remember to consider that long game and enjoy the ride along the way. I think that it’s all worth it in the end:))) ❤️

Just in time to mark my 11th year in the union, I’m welcoming a new decade of my career by checking off another dream item on my list I have yet to check off- an official Principal contract on Broadway. Up to this point I think I have truly done it all- swinging, dance captaining, original shows, revivals, on Broadway, Off-Broadway, dungeon basement cool off-off-Broadway, the flashy corporates, tours, regional, originating tracks, replacement tracks, even translated/changed lyrics, and so much understudying… I’ve truly learned from THE BEST. I’ve had the highest of highs to balance the very low lows, and in no way have I arrived anywhere just because of this one opportunity, but when I stop and take a moment to reflect… I wouldn’t change a thing. Being in service of this art form and to have dedicated myself to every level of it makes this moment that much more sweeter and peaceful. I am so grateful. When people open that playbill, I hope they remember to consider that long game and enjoy the ride along the way. I think that it’s all worth it in the end:))) ❤️

SEE YOU ON THE SWING!!
Following the sensational and exceptional muse, @therealagbarlow, we will be stepping into our own principal era as Evelyn Nesbit!!! 💅🏼👠🫦💄🎠
Thank you @lctheater and the creative team for putting your trust in us. This is truly the gift that keeps on giving ❤️

SEE YOU ON THE SWING!!
Following the sensational and exceptional muse, @therealagbarlow, we will be stepping into our own principal era as Evelyn Nesbit!!! 💅🏼👠🫦💄🎠
Thank you @lctheater and the creative team for putting your trust in us. This is truly the gift that keeps on giving ❤️

MOVED BY MEG 😮‍💨🎂 #TONYAWARDS

MOVED BY MEG 😮‍💨🎂 #TONYAWARDS

‘avin a cheeky time, really

‘avin a cheeky time, really

had an itch🪝🛟🇦🇼🏖️🥥

had an itch🪝🛟🇦🇼🏖️🥥

🎭💋🎠 LOVES WEAPONIZING MY DIVINE FEMININI-TY!!!

1/11/26 I made my Evelyn Nesbit debut on the Vivian Beaumont stage @lctheater among titans I’ve only dreamed about working with. Words fail to describe how much I am consumed by this company’s brilliance, but my awe is reflected back in realizing my own growth. This place, my heart, the people have become a sanctuary. I am so grateful to the team behind the scenes getting me ready @victoriadavidjohn @tisvoltaire @codyrenard @eeeeeanc, Susie for strapping me in, and the company on and off stage cheering me on. Of course, thank you for all the friends who came to support- so many families I’ve made from a decade of being in this crazy business, I am humbled by your love. 🖤 Photo by my brilliant team-Evelyn sister @morgankei

🎭💋🎠 LOVES WEAPONIZING MY DIVINE FEMININI-TY!!!

1/11/26 I made my Evelyn Nesbit debut on the Vivian Beaumont stage @lctheater among titans I’ve only dreamed about working with. Words fail to describe how much I am consumed by this company’s brilliance, but my awe is reflected back in realizing my own growth. This place, my heart, the people have become a sanctuary. I am so grateful to the team behind the scenes getting me ready @victoriadavidjohn @tisvoltaire @codyrenard @eeeeeanc, Susie for strapping me in, and the company on and off stage cheering me on. Of course, thank you for all the friends who came to support- so many families I’ve made from a decade of being in this crazy business, I am humbled by your love. 🖤 Photo by my brilliant team-Evelyn sister @morgankei

Thankful isn’t even the word. Checking off a bucket list event at the 99th Annual Macy’s Day Parade!! 🗽🇺🇸☕️🦃🚕

Thankful isn’t even the word. Checking off a bucket list event at the 99th Annual Macy’s Day Parade!! 🗽🇺🇸☕️🦃🚕

The greatest gift of Ragtime has been finding sisterhood and community in @morgankei- Merely the idea of daring to wear a kimono on opening night was strangely scary, until one day Morgan and I looked at each other mid-rehearsal, and I just knew we had the same thought. She makes everything make sense, the perfect analogy to our complementary friendship. From Off-Broadway we have found solace, comfort, and a safe place in each other, challenged ourselves on passionate thoughts about social justice and nuanced matters on where race/culture/America intersect, championing the other about speaking up in this process, and MOST importantly she makes me belly laughhhhh- wow, we laugh a lot.
Thank you for being the kind of friend I’ve always dreamed of having in the theatre space and beyond. The jaw dropping talent and beauty, wildly curious and thoughtful, the ULTIMATE business woman, and in the meanwhile continually always thinking of how to make the world a better place. Shameless love letter, but what can I say, I adore you. Anyway- maybe a video coming soon cause we have so much footage on our red carpet journey plz bug Morgan about it ok yay😉🇺🇸📽️🎞️

Kimono dressing: @kimononyc @saomorris
Photos by: @emiliomadrid @jennyandersonphoto

The greatest gift of Ragtime has been finding sisterhood and community in @morgankei- Merely the idea of daring to wear a kimono on opening night was strangely scary, until one day Morgan and I looked at each other mid-rehearsal, and I just knew we had the same thought. She makes everything make sense, the perfect analogy to our complementary friendship. From Off-Broadway we have found solace, comfort, and a safe place in each other, challenged ourselves on passionate thoughts about social justice and nuanced matters on where race/culture/America intersect, championing the other about speaking up in this process, and MOST importantly she makes me belly laughhhhh- wow, we laugh a lot.
Thank you for being the kind of friend I’ve always dreamed of having in the theatre space and beyond. The jaw dropping talent and beauty, wildly curious and thoughtful, the ULTIMATE business woman, and in the meanwhile continually always thinking of how to make the world a better place. Shameless love letter, but what can I say, I adore you. Anyway- maybe a video coming soon cause we have so much footage on our red carpet journey plz bug Morgan about it ok yay😉🇺🇸📽️🎞️

Kimono dressing: @kimononyc @saomorris
Photos by: @emiliomadrid @jennyandersonphoto

This show is dedicated in honor of all the immigrants and the fearless Japanese women who came before me in my own bloodline.
It is a miracle that I stand before my American dream in these clothes.

This was all possible, thanks to my Japanese community here in New York, @morgankei @saomorris @kimononyc @zoaynotzoey @rizatakahashi @minamiyusui -They gave me every bit of strength and courage to make this vision come true.

Ragtime is an impossibly timely show, powered by the most poetically lush book and music with our beloved creators by our side, at the most renown iconic art space in the world, for the first time launching Lear’s divinely female new era as artistic director @lctheater …

This is a piece that will move hearts, imagined by people who deeply care about the world, the art, the people, the community, the honor, and the torch of legacy we carry before and after our existence.

To be in an excellently crafted piece that transcends time and every life we’ve lived since it was created, is extremely special and rare.

I am so completely overwhelmed, high on gratitude. This feeling is impossible to describe with just words. So, I’ll continue to listen to the Ragtime:)

Waited all year for this and it has all surpassed every expectation. I’m ready to be completely cradled by this dream.
Photos by: Andy Henderson @andyhenderson

This show is dedicated in honor of all the immigrants and the fearless Japanese women who came before me in my own bloodline.
It is a miracle that I stand before my American dream in these clothes.

This was all possible, thanks to my Japanese community here in New York, @morgankei @saomorris @kimononyc @zoaynotzoey @rizatakahashi @minamiyusui -They gave me every bit of strength and courage to make this vision come true.

Ragtime is an impossibly timely show, powered by the most poetically lush book and music with our beloved creators by our side, at the most renown iconic art space in the world, for the first time launching Lear’s divinely female new era as artistic director @lctheater …

This is a piece that will move hearts, imagined by people who deeply care about the world, the art, the people, the community, the honor, and the torch of legacy we carry before and after our existence.

To be in an excellently crafted piece that transcends time and every life we’ve lived since it was created, is extremely special and rare.

I am so completely overwhelmed, high on gratitude. This feeling is impossible to describe with just words. So, I’ll continue to listen to the Ragtime:)

Waited all year for this and it has all surpassed every expectation. I’m ready to be completely cradled by this dream.
Photos by: Andy Henderson @andyhenderson

*･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･’･my summer sabbatical finale *:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･*˚✧₊⁎❝᷀ົཽ≀ˍ̮ ❝᷀ົཽ⁎⁺˳✧༚

*･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･’･my summer sabbatical finale *:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･*˚✧₊⁎❝᷀ົཽ≀ˍ̮ ❝᷀ົཽ⁎⁺˳✧༚

Home sweet home sweet home in every season ~🍁🍄‍🟫🌾❄️🍵🧵🗾🎋🍧🍊
a combined mixy dump from my last visit but this summer shinya genki and I took a brief pause and visited Japan together as siblings for the first time in 16 years and saw all our favorite people. I thank the universe I was brought into this world with them. I honestly don’t know how I got so lucky- the sweetest, kindest souls you’ll ever meet. They are literally the besssst siblings ever!!! Can’t wait for my next trip home 🇯🇵

Home sweet home sweet home in every season ~🍁🍄‍🟫🌾❄️🍵🧵🗾🎋🍧🍊
a combined mixy dump from my last visit but this summer shinya genki and I took a brief pause and visited Japan together as siblings for the first time in 16 years and saw all our favorite people. I thank the universe I was brought into this world with them. I honestly don’t know how I got so lucky- the sweetest, kindest souls you’ll ever meet. They are literally the besssst siblings ever!!! Can’t wait for my next trip home 🇯🇵

Loves an early summer garden wedding in the stunning heart of Seoul 🥕👒🪿🍇🥖Celebrating the best this weekend - our @therealminnn & Donglee 🤍 It is emotional just to exist in this lifetime with you two. What are the chances that chasing the dream gifts us people whose world’s are just as big and adventurous. In awe. 💌🌏 사랑해DNG!!!!! 예뻤어!!!!

Loves an early summer garden wedding in the stunning heart of Seoul 🥕👒🪿🍇🥖Celebrating the best this weekend - our @therealminnn & Donglee 🤍 It is emotional just to exist in this lifetime with you two. What are the chances that chasing the dream gifts us people whose world’s are just as big and adventurous. In awe. 💌🌏 사랑해DNG!!!!! 예뻤어!!!!

Adopted my mother’s beauty marks @mbzphotog

Adopted my mother’s beauty marks @mbzphotog

hey howya doin, it’s been so long, what’s happening~~~ Here’s a silly dump of moments with some of my favorite people, keeping me gd jolly!!!! Why not!!!! 🤎👒🫶🏼🍺🎶🌷🍩

hey howya doin, it’s been so long, what’s happening~~~ Here’s a silly dump of moments with some of my favorite people, keeping me gd jolly!!!! Why not!!!! 🤎👒🫶🏼🍺🎶🌷🍩

December 3rd is Giving Tuesday!
In our current world and now the upcoming presidency, education and the arts are considered merely an optional waste. These are the first departments to get budget cuts federally, especially not-for-profit companies made to serve our communities. Unfortunately, we are more than ever in a dire position to fund and protect programs that KEEP ART ALIVE. I watch the landscape of the Arts in New York trying to adapt to this quickly shifting economy artistically, commercially, financially… I can’t help but wonder where that has left the artists themselves.

We have to start locally from where our voices are heard. And I’ve never felt that power so deeply than working at @ootbtheatrics. These are incredibly dedicated people wanting to prioritize your safety and voice and they hold a very special place in my heart.
I am so grateful for our production of SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE, translating and performing among hungry creatives who are so respected and believed in for what they contribute to our industry. It was life changing to witness what it’s actually like to do theatre supported by the people who believe in the ground work that makes New York City Theatre!
Please consider donating tomorrow to our beloved theatre community and perhaps you’ll have the chance to see what kind of magic we can make with the uphill climbs that lay ahead.

December 3rd is Giving Tuesday!
In our current world and now the upcoming presidency, education and the arts are considered merely an optional waste. These are the first departments to get budget cuts federally, especially not-for-profit companies made to serve our communities. Unfortunately, we are more than ever in a dire position to fund and protect programs that KEEP ART ALIVE. I watch the landscape of the Arts in New York trying to adapt to this quickly shifting economy artistically, commercially, financially… I can’t help but wonder where that has left the artists themselves.

We have to start locally from where our voices are heard. And I’ve never felt that power so deeply than working at @ootbtheatrics. These are incredibly dedicated people wanting to prioritize your safety and voice and they hold a very special place in my heart.
I am so grateful for our production of SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE, translating and performing among hungry creatives who are so respected and believed in for what they contribute to our industry. It was life changing to witness what it’s actually like to do theatre supported by the people who believe in the ground work that makes New York City Theatre!
Please consider donating tomorrow to our beloved theatre community and perhaps you’ll have the chance to see what kind of magic we can make with the uphill climbs that lay ahead.

It’s been a real slice!!!! My 🤍 @annika_ey 🫨🥗⚱️🇬🇷✨🥝🧿🪞🐈

It’s been a real slice!!!! My 🤍 @annika_ey 🫨🥗⚱️🇬🇷✨🥝🧿🪞🐈

This was a dream @nycitycenter ♡♪… until next time 🩶Captured by @jennyandersonphoto & @joanmarcus

This was a dream @nycitycenter ♡♪… until next time 🩶Captured by @jennyandersonphoto & @joanmarcus

I never thought I could be in this room.
So I was filled with deep gratitude to really contemplate my actual whole person in this space and time. Watching this company power through the impossible resistance of life and our current world right now overwhelmed me with tears every day this month. I am forever changed by their persistence no matter the mountain -still bravery, still joy, still hope, still faith…
Thank you to Lear, @jennygersten, @mrmikerosenberg, @helloellenore, @maestromoore, Lynn, Stephen, the late Terrence McNally, & @nycitycenter for this timely gift. Thank you to @npclaridad for your shoulder, and the many people in the room who dove into challenging discourse on how our differences actually bring us together throughout this process. I am feeling especially lucky and thankful to have chosen the path of being an artist at this moment. 🖤
📸: @jennyandersonphoto
📖: “The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans” by Claire Jean Kim

I never thought I could be in this room.
So I was filled with deep gratitude to really contemplate my actual whole person in this space and time. Watching this company power through the impossible resistance of life and our current world right now overwhelmed me with tears every day this month. I am forever changed by their persistence no matter the mountain -still bravery, still joy, still hope, still faith…
Thank you to Lear, @jennygersten, @mrmikerosenberg, @helloellenore, @maestromoore, Lynn, Stephen, the late Terrence McNally, & @nycitycenter for this timely gift. Thank you to @npclaridad for your shoulder, and the many people in the room who dove into challenging discourse on how our differences actually bring us together throughout this process. I am feeling especially lucky and thankful to have chosen the path of being an artist at this moment. 🖤
📸: @jennyandersonphoto
📖: “The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans” by Claire Jean Kim

Today is for @companybway: happy closing to the home we created and to the joy and laughter we shared to keep us brimming with life.
Act 2, Scene 5-
my favorite scene for many reasons but for this company in particular, loaded with memories, happy/sad tears 🎁, cue #teamunderstudy, or a reassuring nod from Sondheim himself 💜🥂“Or… maybe the surprise is on us” 🎈

Today is for @companybway: happy closing to the home we created and to the joy and laughter we shared to keep us brimming with life.
Act 2, Scene 5-
my favorite scene for many reasons but for this company in particular, loaded with memories, happy/sad tears 🎁, cue #teamunderstudy, or a reassuring nod from Sondheim himself 💜🥂“Or… maybe the surprise is on us” 🎈

This timeless masterpiece is no doubt one of the greatest of the theatre canon. I am so excited to represent our existence in the world and history of Ragtime. What an honor to be wailing these powerful anthems along side the best of the best at @nycitycenter 🗽🪽

This timeless masterpiece is no doubt one of the greatest of the theatre canon. I am so excited to represent our existence in the world and history of Ragtime. What an honor to be wailing these powerful anthems along side the best of the best at @nycitycenter 🗽🪽

Red Carpet of “See What I Wanna See”

It is wildly surreal to work on something that chews you out through the bone, only to realize that you have more to chew through the very next day. I challenge our audience to move past understanding, and look to accepting, and only then can you start to see glimmers of the truth. “Believe and be free”, indeed.

I am, and I say this with my entire being, SO grateful for this experience and to connect with every vein of what made this show possible. I will hold this experience close to my heart forever.

📸 by the one and only @rebeccajmichelson
Styled by: @yung_perrier w/ @dynamiteclothing @jimmychoo

Red Carpet of “See What I Wanna See”

It is wildly surreal to work on something that chews you out through the bone, only to realize that you have more to chew through the very next day. I challenge our audience to move past understanding, and look to accepting, and only then can you start to see glimmers of the truth. “Believe and be free”, indeed.

I am, and I say this with my entire being, SO grateful for this experience and to connect with every vein of what made this show possible. I will hold this experience close to my heart forever.

📸 by the one and only @rebeccajmichelson
Styled by: @yung_perrier w/ @dynamiteclothing @jimmychoo

… 時間だ！⏳⌛️
Trying to get my heart, my brain down to my toes, all my senses come together to really remember this. All my praise to @lilporkbunz @adam_rothenberg @paul_mcgill_ @littlelizzybiz @ootbtheatrics, company and crew for this treasure. Happy Opening 🖤
📸: @thomasbrunot

… 時間だ！⏳⌛️
Trying to get my heart, my brain down to my toes, all my senses come together to really remember this. All my praise to @lilporkbunz @adam_rothenberg @paul_mcgill_ @littlelizzybiz @ootbtheatrics, company and crew for this treasure. Happy Opening 🖤
📸: @thomasbrunot

The Company
“SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE”

[Previews: September 4 ~ 16, 2024]
[Performances: Sept 18 ~ 29, 2024]
Ticket Link in Bio 🎟️

📸 beautiful portraits by @thomasbrunot & @whoismattrodin

The Company
“SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE”

[Previews: September 4 ~ 16, 2024]
[Performances: Sept 18 ~ 29, 2024]
Ticket Link in Bio 🎟️

📸 beautiful portraits by @thomasbrunot & @whoismattrodin

A week into this process and I can barely wrap my head around the fact that I’m working with this particular group, much less believe the amount of sheer passion painted through the space of @theatre_154 with flying colors.
Downtown New York Off-Broadway Not-for-Profit theatre is definitely where creativity bubbles. It is frightening, and it takes guts.
Looking forward to seeing you at @ootbtheatrics debut big musical production this fall. What they stand for and what they represent is quite literally out of the box and I think this is where I find hope this season. 🕰️📿

A week into this process and I can barely wrap my head around the fact that I’m working with this particular group, much less believe the amount of sheer passion painted through the space of @theatre_154 with flying colors.
Downtown New York Off-Broadway Not-for-Profit theatre is definitely where creativity bubbles. It is frightening, and it takes guts.
Looking forward to seeing you at @ootbtheatrics debut big musical production this fall. What they stand for and what they represent is quite literally out of the box and I think this is where I find hope this season. 🕰️📿

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