Kyle Payne has been acting in the San Francisco Bay Area and on national and international tours for over five years. Recently, he originated the role of Arnold in The Magic School Bus: Climate Challenge for a Bay Area run and seven month national tour. Kyle was very proud to work on a project that helped raise the national awareness about such an important topic.

Kyle has a reputation as a gifted physical comedian. In roles like Jerry in The Full Monty, Kyle in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged, and Pharaoh in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Kyle combines the precise technical demands of comedy with the infectious joy of performance.

Originally, he cut his teeth with the California Theatre Center. As part of their resident company he toured up and down the West Coast, and performed on the first English-speaking theatre for young audiences production in China with Miss Nelson is Missing. Kyle also played featured roles in TYA classics such as Goodnight Moon, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and MVP: The Jackie Robinson Story.

When not acting, Kyle is usually teaching acting, comedy, stage combat, or circus skills to students from pre-K through college. In 2006, Kyle graduated with a MFA in Acting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 2003 he graduated with a BA in Theatre and a minor in Spanish from the Robert E. Cook Honors College of Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Kyle originally hails from Jackson Heights, Queens. Watching his dad perform as a professional barbershop quartet singer and arranger sparked his love for theatre. In fact, at age four, he thought that a tuxedo-clad wedding party exiting a local church was a barbershop quartet. It was disappointing when the group did not burst into song. His mother, Nancy, still lives in Jackson Heights, and his younger brother Rory works in education in New Orleans. Kyle is married to his lovely wife, Jessica Payne.