2010:     Shoots the movie "Gun Hill Road" alongside Esaí Morales, Judy Reyes, 
                      Robin De Jesús and Miriam Colón, and directed by Rashaad Ernesto Green. 

                      Her new play "The Orphans," a collaboration with actor/director Daniel Irizarry
                      (http://www.daniel-irizarry.com/) and her second play for La Criatura Theater, will
                      premiere at the renowned La MaMa ETC, December 2-12, 2010. More info at
                      www.lacriatura.org.

                      Shoots the film "Losin' It" by Macdara Vallely.

                      Her one-woman show "ROOTLESS: La No-Nostalgia" plays to sold out houses
                      at the 8vo Festival Internacional de Cabaret in Mexico City in July.

                      In May, "ROOTLESS: La No-Nostalgia" plays at P.S.122 as part of the 7th
                      Annual soloNOVA Arts Festival, and is nominated for a New York Innovative
                      Theater Award 2010 as Outstanding Musical.

                      Stars in the short film "Happy Birthday" by Noel Calloway, produced by Amber
                      Bickham, and receives excellent reviews on www.talentoverstock.com.

            2009:  The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University 
                     invites "Rootless” to its 7th Encuentro, in Bogotá, Colombia.         

            “Rootless” opens at CUNY's John Jay College, sponsored by the Department of 
            Latina/o and Latin American Studies and of several pro-immigrant non-profits in
            New York City.

             Appears on the TV show "Law and Order." WATCH

2008:   Premieres her third one-woman show entitled “Rootless: La No-Nostalgia” on  42nd Street in Manhattan.

             Debuts as the lead vocalist of the Latin American folk music band "Trova York."

2007:   Appears on the world premiere of Charles Mee's “Fire Island” with 3-Legged Dog.  Collaborates with Knife, Inc. at HERE Arts Center on
             the play “ophelia3.”         

2006:   Stars in the shorts “Trigger Effect” (Crucible Films), “That's Good, That's Enough (FemmeMaker Prods.) and “Mojado” (CT Pictures,  
              SBIFF ‘08.)

              Writes, directs and premieres hersite-specific play “Silence Is Health / Silencio es Salud” for La Criatura Theater Company. Obtains
              grants from the Esther B. Kahn and Puffin Foundations to produce the play.            

2005:   Nominated for a New York Latin ACE award as Best Comedy Actress for her lead performance as Diana, Countess of Belflor, in Lope de Vega's "The Dog in the Manger" at Spanish Repertory Theater, where she also starred in "Blood Wedding,"The House of Bernarda Alba" and "Bad Blood," smong others.          

Plays the lead role in “Medea” by Ágora Teatro, staged at the San Felipe del Morro Fort in San Juan.

Co-founds La Criatura Theater Company.

2004:   “Colonia 2007” is invited to participate in HERE Arts Center's The American Living Room Festival in New York.

2003:   “¿Qué me trajiste?: Cabaret Boricua” opens in New York at HERE Arts Center.

Stars in the short film “The Love Bite” by Macdara Vallely (Best Irish Short, Galway Film Fleadth ’04, Ireland.)

Colaborates with The Flying Machine at Public Theater in their production of Celine's “Journey to the End of the Night.”

2002:  Debuts “off-Broadway” as understudy of the lead actress in  “La Lupe: My Life, My Destiny” with the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater.  

            Colaborates with Josh Fox's International WOW Company in “The Bomb”.

2001:   With Colectivo C-4, she participates in the 10th Havana International Theater Festival, and opens “Luz Negra” by Álvaro Menén Desleal
             in P.R.       

             Goes on tour with “¿Qué me trajiste?” y “Colonia 2007" to Ecuador, Perú, Chile and Argentina.

2000:   Receives funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of  
             Puerto Rican Culture to produce her second one-woman show
             “Colonia 2007 o el cabaret de los días terribles.”

             “¿Qué me trajiste?” opens at Havana's National Theater Café
             Teatro Delirio Habanero.

1999:   Writes, directs and premieres her first one-woman show “¿Qué me trajiste?”.

1998:   Stars in "Waiting for Godot,” by Rosa Luisa Márquez, as part of the Encuentro
              Ayacucho 98 and the Internaional Theater Festival in Lima, Perú.

              Moves to Quito, Ecuador, to study with the renowned theater group Malayerba.

1997:  Stars in Badal Sircar's “Procession,” directed by Rosa Luisa Márquez.

1996:  Co-founds experimental theater troupe Colectivo C-4 and they premiere Jorge
            Díaz's “Día Uno, Eve of the Beheading.”

            Collaborates in the cast of “Octopuses Garden," directed by Rosa Luisa
            Márquez.

Karina Casiano was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and is a graduate of the University of Puerto Rico. Through the years, she has trained with Rosa Luisa Márquez, Penny Templeton Studio, Austin Pendleton, Paul Gemignani, Ginger Thatcher, Enrique Brown, Paul Ford, Joanna Merlin, Carolann Page, Susan Baum, Atlantic Theater Company, Michael Chekhov Studio, NY Goofs, The Second City, Yuyachkani, Viveca Vázquez, Petra Bravo, Malayerba, and many more. For resumé and headshots: www.imdb.com/name/nm2507777

Photos (from top to bottom) by: Thomas Michael, Eric Borcherding and Flor Blake.


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