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Kayla Mak
Rye Brook, New York
Biography
Photo: Nir Arieli.
Kayla Mak grew up in Rye Brook, New York, and is of Japanese, Chinese, and Cuban descent. She trained at Westchester Dance Academy and Ballet Academy East before studying at The Juilliard School in New York City, earning her BFA in dance in 2025, under the direction of Alicia Graf Mack and associate director Mario Alberto Zambrano. Mak was the recipient of a 2025 Princess Grace Award.
Mak has participated in various television shows, including NBC’s World of Dance, and has performed the role of Clara in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. She has worked and performed with Juliano Nunes in projects for summer festivals in Switzerland and Mexico.
Mak joined American Ballet Theatre Studio Company in September 2024 where she created a role in Houston Thomas’s U Don’t Know Me and performed in new ballets by Amy Hall Garner, Madison Brown, James Whiteside, and Brady Farrar, as well as George Balanchine’s Tarantella, Jerome Robbins’s Interplay, and Yannick Lebrun’s Human.
Mak joined the main Company as an apprentice in 2025.
ABT is grateful to Kathleen Condon for supporting the Dancer Fund in honor of Kayla Mak.