Caity-Shea Violette
Caity-Shea Violette is a national award-winning playwright currently living in Boston. Her internationally produced work explores gender, invisible disabilities, and intergenerational trauma through through a feminist lens.
Caity-Shea 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. She is a member of Dramatists Guild of America.
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 through testimonial writing. 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.
Caity-Shea’s ten-minute play THE STAND will receive a production as part of Artists’ Exchange’s 14th Annual One Act Play Festival. The production will be directed by Tom Chace and will run from July 11th-27th.