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Violeta Picayo (she/her), is a bilingual Cuban-American actor, director, and choreographer. A born and raised New Yorker, her work is guided by a deep interest in the inherited body. Violeta has made her artistic home with some of New York’s most dynamic theater companies -- she is a company member at Bedlam and The SuperGeographics, and an associate artist of SITI Company. She has worked at NYC venues including BAM, The Public, Second Stage, the Gym at Judson, La Mama; regionally throughout the US at the American Repertory Theater, Portland Center Stage, City Theater, the Fisher Center; and internationally in Argentina, England, Greece, India, Scotland. She has taught alongside the SITI Company, and as a guest artist at Pace University, The Juilliard School, and Atlantic Acting School NYU. Violeta is a proud graduate of Vassar College, the National Theater Institute at The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, and the SITI Conservatory.