BIO

Kayleigh Choiniere is a Canadian queer multi-hyphenate artist. An award-winning actor and costume designer, she works across film, theatre, voice, music videos, commercials, editorial, and personal styling.

Trained in professional theatre at Dawson College, her stage highlights include Dusty in the Canadian premiere of POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, directed by Lisa Rubin at the Segal Centre for Performing Arts in Montreal. For this role she won the BroadwayWorld Montreal Award for Best Supporting Performer and was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Performance by the Montreal Theatre Awards. Other stage credits include Taylor in the world premiere of CULT PLAY, written by Scout Rexe and directed by Annie Valentina (Imago Theatre, Montreal and Neptune Theatre, Halifax), and The History of Sexuality, written and directed by Dane Stewart and presented at Place des Arts by Talking Dog Productions and Fierté Montréal, which she also co-produced and designed.

Selected film and television acting credits include Einstein (CBS), DMV (CBS), I See You Always (Lifetime), Wong & Winchester (Pixcom/Lionsgate), The Bold Type (Freeform/Universal), and Requiem for a Sad Girl (Quirk Films).

Embracing wearing multiple hats, Kayleigh has both acted in and designed projects such as the feature film Wild Goat Surf and the short film I Want to Be Like You, both written and directed by Caitlyn Sponheimer. For this work she was nominated for a British Columbia Leo Award for Outstanding Costume Design and won Best Cast Performance at the Fantasy/Sci-Fi Festival, respectively. Additional feature film credits include Charlie Tango.

As a costume designer and stylist, Kayleigh has worked with artists including Lux Pascal for The Hollywood Reporter, Drew Denny, Jack and Matilda Legault, Fleece, Mint Simon, Storry, Ada Lea (NPR Tiny Desk Performance), Aisha Dee, Maya Malkin, Goodnight Sunrise, Aiza, and on The Weeknd’s After Hours Til Dawn 2022 tour. She has designed numerous short films including Bridget & Benji, written and directed by Adam Capriolo and starring Meghann Fahy, The Ugliest of Them All (20th Century Studios), and Boy Azuli by Oriana Leman.

Selected feature film costume design credits include the critically acclaimed You Can Live Forever, written and directed by Sarah Watts and Mark Slutsky, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and the upcoming Love & Chaos, directed by Drew Denny, starring Christine Taylor and Bebe Wood. Her series work includes Season 3 of Avec Moi and the vertical mobile series Rise of the Mixed and Her Double His Trouble. Commercial clients include Flight Path, Battat Toys, and La Fourmi Granola.

With over fifteen years of multidisciplinary experience, Kayleigh brings a unique and intimate perspective to character building, performer needs, and director collaboration. She is dedicated to telling queer stories and celebrating bodies and identity through an authenticity-focused design lens.

Passionate about activism through art, Kayleigh produces an ongoing theatrical charity event series Live Drunk Reads and organizes a body-positive dance class. She is a founding member of AGC, a grassroots organization dedicated to breaking the silence surrounding abuses in arts training institutions. She is also a member of the ACTRA Women’s Committee and the LGBTQS2+ Committee, where members advocate for gender equity, inclusion, representation, and education. She has trained in anti-oppression and nonviolent communication.

As one half of the queer events-organizing duo Saturgays, Kayleigh believes joy can mobilize just as powerfully as rage — and that every glittery drop of sweat on the dance floor can be a sacred act of protest.