Photography: @tavaKealani Felicia Petito is an Italian-American director, actor, filmmaker, and writer currently based in Rome, Italy. She also works out of NYC.
She is from a little bit of everywhere. Born in Hawaii, early years of life spent in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, and then living all across the U.S.A. with her mother throughout her girlhood.
She’s been working as an au pair for the past year in Northern Italy and is currently drafting her first feature-length screenplay and learning Italian.
She studied documentary filmmaking at London Film Academy and is a proud 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, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude, earning a BFA in Theatre with a minor in Media & Entertainment Producing as a University Scholarship recipient.
IG: @kealanipetito \ @keacooks