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2009

• The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at NYU invites "Rootless" to its 7th Encuentro, in Bogota, Colombia.          
• "Rootless" opens at CUNY's John Jay College, sponsored by the Department of Latina/o and Latin American Studies and of several NYC pro-immigrant non-profits.
• Appears on the TV show "Law and Order."

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 immersive/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 in Lope de Vega's "The Dog in the Manger" at Spanish Repertory Theater, where she also starred in "Blood Wedding," "The House of Bernarda Alba" and "Bad Blood," among other plays.
• 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.)   
• Collaborates with The Flying Machine at Public Theater in their production of Louis-Férdinand Celine's "Journey to the End of the Night."    

2002

• Debuts “off-Broadway” as understudy of the lead in "La Lupe: My Life, My Destiny" at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater .     
• Collaborates with Josh Fox's International WOW Company in "The Bomb."  

Photo (above) by Flor Blake.

2001

• With Colectivo C-4, presentes "Day One" at the 10th Havana International Theater Festival and opens "Luz Negra," by Álvaro Menén Desleal, in Puerto Rico.         
• Goes on tour with "¿Qué me trajiste?" and "Colonia 2007" to Ecuador, Peru, Chile and Argentina.

2000

• The National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture fund her second solo 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," directed by Rosa Luisa Márquez, at the Encuentro Ayacucho 98 and the International Theater Festival in Lima, Peru.  
• Relocates to Quito, Ecuador, to study with 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. 

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Karina Casiano was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and graduated from the University of Puerto Rico.   

Through the years, she has trained with Rosa Luisa Márquez, Richard Crawford, Movement Theater Studio, Gibney Dance, Norman Taylor, Penny Templeton Studio, Austin Pendleton, Paul Gemignani, Paul Ford, Joanna Merlin, Carolann Page, Susan Baum, Atlantic Theater Company, Heather Hammond, Body and Pole, Michael Chekhov Studio, NY Goofs, The Second City, Upright Citizens Brigade,Yuyachkani, Viveca Vázquez, Petra Bravo, Malayerba, and many more.  

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Photo (above) by Valerie Green.