Kaye Winks grew up next to a cornfield in the middle of Westernness writing stories, seeing white people and playing with cats. She is an actress, writer, comedian, producer, director, voiceover artist, singer, world traveler, budding equestrian, and pun aficionado. She trained with the Moscow Art Theatre School in association with Harvard University and the American Repertory Theater and honed her clown skills with French master clown Philippe Gaulier.

In her hometown of Chicago, Kaye was a longtime cast member of The Second City’s popular, all-female sketch comedy revue SHE THE PEOPLE in which she performed over 400 shows. Her one-woman show TOKEN, in which she portrayed over thirty different satirical characters relating her experiences being that lone black person in a world of white, enjoyed a sold-out run at The Second City’s Judy’s Beat Lounge before touring to Theatre Aspen, UCB Los Angeles, Out of Bounds Comedy Festival in Austin, Texas, and Off-Broadway at Theatre Row in United Solo Theatre Festival where it won Best Festival Debut.

Kaye performed at The Kennedy Center in the holiday satire Love, Factually. Upon relocating to Los Angeles, she received the NBC Universal Bob Curry Fellowship at The Second City Hollywood and was an ABC Discovers 2020 finalist. She can be seen on television in HBO Max’s Chicago-focused comedy, South Side and ABC’s Fresh Off the Boat. Most recently, she debuted at Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory in What I Learned in Paris. She has national commercials for Progressive and Smucker’s airing presently.

As a writer, Kaye made the shortlist for Women Write Now 2022, a comedic screenwriting fellowship with Hartbeat, a Kevin Hart Company. Her critically-acclaimed original play Hoods debuted at Goodman Theatre as part of Collaboraction's PEACEBOOK Festival. She is currently a comedy writer on the Generation Z-focused political news commentary show The Gen Zone airing on FOX Soul.