Caity-Shea Violette
Caity-Shea Violette is a national award-winning playwright whose work stories makes invisible disabilities, complex trauma, and gender-based violence more accessible to wider audiences. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Playwriting at Boston University. A Minnesota Native, she holds a BFA in Theatre from the University of Minnesota, Duluth and is a graduate of the St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists. Caity-Shea is passionate about exploring trauma, invisible disabilities, and gender-based violence by creating new work. She is a member of Dramatists Guild of America.
In addition to her work as an artist, Caity-Shea is also an access advocate in the theatrical community. She was named part of ADA 25 Advancing Leadership's 2017 Fellows Class, a program for emerging leaders with disabilities who are committed to creating change. Since 2014, Caity-Shea has worked with The Voices and Faces Project, a nonprofit that empowers survivors of sexual violence and human trafficking to share their stories.
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Caity-Shea’s new short play One Ring was selected to be produced as part of Cone Man Running Productions Five Minute Mile Festival. Check it out at Spring Street Studios in Houston, TX from March 28 - April 13, 2019.