In Scena! 2022

KIT- KAIROS ITALY THEATER’smission is to create a cultural exchange program between Italy, the US and the international community, to unveil artistic and creative sides of these two countries to the world. In the States, Kairos Italy Theater is dedicated to spreading the Italian Culture and to creating an Italian Cultural Network in order to support and further increase the knowledge of Italy in the States.KIThas produced over 40 performances and events since its creation in 2000, collaborating with Off-Off and Off Broadway theaters and with US Institutions such as The Kitchen, The Fringe Festival, the Abrons Art Center, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimo’ at NYU, Italian Academy at Columbia University, Film Society at Lincoln Center, Dahesh Museum of Art, NY Hall of Science, the Flea Theatre, Theater for the New City, the Cherry Lane Theater, the Bernie West Theater, the cell theatre, Bernie Wohl Center, Montclair State University, Suffolk County Community College, Vassar College,The Italian Cultural Institute in NY, LA, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington DC and the General Consulate of Italy among many others.KITbrings premiere to the US stages. Works never translated before by Ennio Flaiano, Franca Valeri, Eduardo De Filippo, and Pier Paolo Pasolini have been presented to the US audience, who has grown in appreciation and in number since the first production in 1997. Since May 2003, KIT has been presented theDouble Theatre Experience: one act performed first in English and then in Italian.KIThas curated several events all related to Italian Culture: “Fellini-Flaiano: a different take”, “Caricatures from Tolentino”, “Fellini and The Myth of I Vitelloni in Italian Cinema” in 2003. KIT is the representative of the De Curtis Family in the US and the curator of the exhibition “Excerpts from a Prince named Toto’”.KIThas created classes of Italian&Theatre for children and adults, and the YoungKIT - KIT youth division.KITinaugurated in 2013In Scena!Italian Theater Festival NY, the first Italian theater festival to take place in all the five boroughs and beyond. In 2019 KIT inaugurated, together with KIT Italia and International Theatre, OnStage! Festival, the first American Theater Festival in Italy.KITis the theater company in residency atCasa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo’ at NYU.