Actress Kayli Carter talks Netflix, theater, working with fellow Brooklynite Paul Giamatti in new film
One of the delights of the Winter 2016 season at St. Ann’s Warehouse was the American Repertory Theater’s production of “Nice Fish.” Co-written by and starring Mark Rylance, the play combined equal measures of Eugene Ionesco and Sherwood Anderson. It offered an alternately doleful and hilarious take on life in the Upper Midwest. One of the most memorable elements of the production was the performance of a young actress named Kayli Carter, who played “Flo,” the only female member of the cast.
Carter, a Florida native and Brooklyn transplant, is not a new figure on the stage — or on the screen. She has appeared in “Machinal,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Spring Awakening.” Her film and television resume includes Amazon’s “Z: The Beginning of Everything,” “Rings” for Paramount and “Godless” for Netflix.
Now she can be seen in Tamara Jenkins’ first film in ten years, “Private Life,” acting alongside Brooklyn Heights resident Paul Giamatti. Carter plays Sadie, a twenty-five-year-old Bard student. Sadie is restless and confused, but also warm and generous — as she demonstrates by agreeing to donate her eggs to her “art Mom and Dad,” played by Kathryn Hahn and Giamatti, respectively.