Watch Kayla Parker in ‘Grease: Live’ on January 31

Canyon Lake performer Kayla Parker will be featured in the ensemble of “Grease: Live,” set to air Sunday, January 31 on Fox.

Photo provided by Victoria Monroe

The show is directed by Thomas Kail (“Hamilton,” “In The Heights”), with music directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tom Kitt. The star-studded cast includes Aaron Tveit, Julianne Hough, Vanessa Hudgens, Mario Lopez, Ana Gasteyer, Carly Rae Jepsen and more.

Kayla, 22, was raised in Canyon Lake with parents Victoria and Jason Monroe and siblings Robert Parker and Avalon Monroe. Her father Robert Parker lives in Wildomar. She is a former Young Miss Canyon Lake and Miss Talent.

After graduating from Temescal Canyon High School and receiving three years of training in UCLA’s prestigious Ray Bolger Musical Theatre Program, Kayla began working consistently in both regional/professional theater, music and television.

While at school, Kayla performed in a Great American Songbook-themed cabaret, directed and conceived by Lainie Kazan at the Freud Playhouse. She also workshopped a new “Peter Pan” musical at DreamWorks and performed in multiple shows on campus, including “Little Shop of Horrors” (Audrey), “The Last Five Years” (Cathy) and “Orestes” (Electra), to name a few.

This time last year, Kayla was starring as Eponine in a regional touring production of “Les Miserables,” which opened to sold-out audiences at Pechanga Resort and Casino.

Following the end of the tour, Kayla booked the lead role of Sue Snell, the show’s heroine/narrator, in a workshop revival of “Carrie: The Musical” at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.

After a successful run, for which Kayla received multiple awards and nominations, she reprised this role in a transferred production at the historic Los Angeles Theater in Downtown Los Angeles. “Carrie” closed mid-November after a successful six-week run and received critical acclaim as the first environmentally immersive musical production and the first LA-based musical revival.

In addition to her journey with “Carrie,” Kayla also guest starred in a Discovery Channel crime series and performed in multiple concerts and cabarets around Southern California.

She attended the casting call for “Grease” during tech rehearsals of “Carrie” last September, finding out a week later that she and other “Carrie” cast members had been accepted for the musical. Kayla is a member of SAG-AFTRA and Actor’s Equity Association. She currently resides in Los Angeles. For more updates, visit her website at www.kaylap.com.