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Photo by Todd Braley

Production Still from "Shadows of the Night"

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About Me

Hello! My name is Kazuo Salazar. I am a former athlete and ski racer who has been acting since I was 7. I started out with a company from Denver called A Theatre Group, and hated it so much that I ran away. But the next year, my mom put me right back in their summer camp, and everything just took off from there.

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When I wasn't in theatre growing up, I was outside or in a gym playing every sport under the sun. I started with soccer and gymnastics, then added in hockey, baseball, football, and basketball. I learned tennis and badminton in the same year. Started rock climbing and playing volleyball around the same time. Then as a senior in high school decided to join the Track team in order to become the student at my high school with the most varsity letters on their jacket (and I think I still hold that record to this day). Once in college, I continued to play intramural sports, and even found myself on the Quidditch team at the University of Utah.

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I got my start in musical theatre, but took a break after I turned 16 to finish high school. I had decided against coming back to acting, but after a semester off and some serious introspection while doing some globetrotting, I decided that, much like my 9 year-old self had said, acting was what I wanted to do with my life.

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Since returning to theatre and acting, I have done more than half a dozen short films, joined the cast of the longest running series filmed in Western Colorado, worked on Amazon Prime's Fallout, shot a feature length horror project (fingers crossed it arrives next fall!), booked a romantic-drama, and returned to stage in productions of The Antipodes, Three Sisters, and Amadeus.

Biography

Kazuo Salazar grew up in Silverton, CO. He first started acting with A Theatre Group (ATG), a company out of Denver than ran summer camps in Silverton. After a brief break from acting at 16, Kazuo returned to acting at 21, and began working towards a Bachelors degree of Fine Arts in theatre arts at Colorado Mesa University. He will graduate in May of 2025

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​Kazuo started playing sports at 4 years old, beginning with soccer and gymnastics (where his mother was an instructor). As he grew older, he began to ski race downhill and learn martial arts. He also started playing football, baseball, and basketball. In high school, he primarily played basketball, and he also started running track.

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With an athletic background as diverse as gymnastics, martial arts, and most sports under the sun, Kazuo found himself performing stunts when he returned to acting at 21.

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