2011: "Gun Hill Road" opens to sold-out houses at Sundance, among
other international festivals, and in select theaters in New York City. 

"The Orphans" -introducing Peruvian actor Renzo Ampuero- reopens at the
 Connelly Theater in NYC in June, as part of the 5th Teatro StageFest.

"The Orphans" plays in São Paulo, Brazil, to full houses as part of the first
collaboration between StageFest and the Brazilian organization SESC.
More details at www.lacriatura.org.

Casiano and Daniel Irizarry are nominated for Outstanding Choreography
for "The Orphans" at the 2011 NY Innovative Theater Awards.



2010:  Her new play "The Orphans," a collaboration with actor/director
Daniel Irizarry and her second play for La Criatura Theater, premieres
to rave reviews at the renowned La MaMa ETC, in December. 
Reviews and pictures at www.lacriatura.org.

Shoots the movie "Gun Hill Road" alongside Esaí Morales, Judy Reyes, 
Robin De Jesús and Miriam Colón, and directed by Rashaad Ernesto Green,
which will premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011. 

Shoots the film "Babygirl" 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. Press: PAPER  RADIO

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 InnovativeTheater 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” at chashama 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 her site-specific play
 “Silence Is Health / Silencio es Salud” for La Criatura Theater Company. 


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 i
n "Blood Wedding, "The House of Bernarda Alba" and "Bad Blood," among 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 Puerto Rico.       

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,
Norman Taylor,Paul Ford, Joanna Merlin, Carolann Page, Susan Baum,
Atlantic Theater Company, Heather Hammond, Michael Chekhov Studio,
NY Goofs, The Second City, Upright Citizens Brigade,
Yuyachkani, Viveca Vázquez, Petra Bravo, Malayerba, and many more.

For resumé and headshots: www.imdb.com/name/nm2507777

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






Copyright Karina Casiano 2003-2012. All rights reserved.