Kealani Felicia Petito is an Italian-American director, actress, 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 part of Switzerland, and then moving all across the U.S.A. with her mother throughout her girlhood.

She worked as an au pair for the past year in Northern Italy. She is currently learning Italian & writing many things, including drafting her first feature-length screenplay.

She studied documentary filmmaking at the London Film Academy and is a proud alumnus of both 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, and the British American Drama Academy Midsummer In Oxford program ‘23 (run in association with the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University).