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Priyanka Shetty is an award-winning actor, director, and playwright heralded by the New York Times as someone to watch. Her critically acclaimed one-woman show The Elephant in the Room has been performed at numerous venues across the country including The Kennedy Center and will be staged at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe as part of the Assembly Festival.
Priyanka made her Off-Broadway debut with her second solo play #Charlottesville at the Drama Desk award-winning 59E59 Theaters’ “East to Edinburgh” Festival in July 2021. She was also handpicked for the prestigious Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive 2021, where she further developed The Wall, the final play in her triptych of solos.
Priyanka earned a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Virginia and has served on the faculty of the University of Virginia’s Department of Drama.
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