Kealani (kay-uh-lah-knee) Felicia Petito is a spiritually audacious creative artist who engages with and uses art as a means for communal healing & empowerment.

Born in Kauai, Hawaii & coming from Italian-Catalonian roots, her early years were spent moving all over the U.S. with her single mother, a lifelong educator & ESL instructor. She is based out of New York, and has been an abroad as a family au pair this year.

She recently performed in The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals cohort as an actor. She has also devised and directed innovative theater with The Fool Volk Collective helping bring a new play to La Mama ETC in the spring of 2026.

She attended London Film Academy where she studied documentary filmmaking & is an alumnus of both the British American Drama Academy Midsummer In Oxford ‘23 program (run in association with the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University) and NYU Tisch School of the Arts (BFA).

She is an avid learner of all things that document the social, spiritual, and philosophical. She loves anything related to astrology, the planets, and the stars. She also loves punching and kickboxing and playing the baritone ukulele.

IG: @kealanipetito \ @cookingwithkealani