Angela Kariotis is a creative, a national thought leader, and a divergent thinker. Her varied experience makes her unique and nimble. She is an advocate, educator, teaching artist, and a project director.

Angela is a future aesthetics performance artist writing about race, ethnicity, and class in America. Called "a lithe and vital writer-performer" by The Star-Ledger, Angela Kariotis "possesses the raw energy to light up a small city" heralds The Chicago Reader. "But it's her sly and engaging use of language that makes her work memorable in dynamic performances that are serious and seriously funny,” writes the Austin Chronicle.

As a presented and commissioned artist, Angela has brought her unique performance style across America and beyond to venues such as The University of California-Los Angeles, Contact Theater in Manchester, UK, Legion Arts in Iowa, the Off-Center in Austin, TX, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, and the Hip Hop Theater Festival in New York City. With its deft balance of narrative, critique, and movement, as well as Angela's visceral and fluid performance, her work has connected with audiences across the U.S. "A one-woman artistic showcase in her trail-blazing storytelling." -Los Angeles City Beat. 

Angela couples her masterful performances with cutting-edge residency work. A master teaching artist for 20 years, Kariotis is committed to literacy through the arts, theater for social justice, and art-making as a liberatory practice. For her classroom teaching, Kariotis integrates contemplative learning, and restorative circles into her pedagogy. Her work is hyper focused on classroom inclusivity and active learning. Kariotis facilitates strategies to create an equitable classroom and to support co-intentional teaching with an empowered and diverse student cohort.

Angela graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a masters degree in Communication with a focus in Performance Studies. Kariotis is trained in Narrative 4 story exchange for empathy, Playback Theater, Theater of the Oppressed, contemplative facilitation, oral history, restorative justice, and drama therapy techniques. She integrates trauma informed care in arts education, social emotional learning with critical race theory, and culturally responsive pedagogy. She’s learned to build community and translate her engagement to virtual spaces.

She teaches professional development and train the trainer programming using applied and devised theater practices across sectors for embodied and somatic approaches. Currently, she is focused on developing diverse, equitable, and inclusive programming in higher education that integrates experiential and co-curricular learning to affirm student life on campus.

Kariotis crafts personal workshops for a transformative experience for community, corporate, and education partners. She can do so for you too.