Kealani Petito is an Italian-American actor and creative artist based in New York City.

Kealani was an actor in the Atlantic Acting School’s 2024 Alumni Industry Showcase, selected to be among a cohort of recent alumni who represent the most talented students in recent years. She was a lead role in an NYU Graduate Film, Polaroid, premiering this May.

Kealani was one of fifteen students selected to perform an original writing piece for the Gilder Lehrman Institute Hamilton Education Program at the Paramount Theater in Seattle.

Kealani attended the British American Drama Academy Midsummer In Oxford program (run in association with the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University.) She received her BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where she trained at Atlantic Theater Company.

Born in Hawaii, Kealani’s formative years were spent overseas in Switzerland, and in many states around the continental U.S. before she eventually came to New York. She has also helped devise and create innovative theater with The Fool Volk Collective (at La Mama Galleria) and Parent Theatre Company. She strives to collaborate on work that is deeply textured, authentic, and mystifying.

IG: @kealanipetito