{"id":526,"date":"2021-06-03T20:11:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T20:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/priyakiran.com\/?page_id=526"},"modified":"2025-08-10T03:08:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T03:08:54","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/priyakiran.com\/index.php\/about\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"526\" class=\"elementor elementor-526\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0dce7ed elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0dce7ed\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div 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data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Priya Kiran (she\/her) is an independent writer, director, and actor based in New York City. Flying from her small-town in Iowa, she found and focused her craft at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and has since been creating art dedicated to uplifting underrepresented communities. <br><br>Priya\u2019s films have been selected for the Interrobang Film Festival, IFFSA, the Goa Short Film Festival, amongst many others. Currently she works on the development team at The Js and serves as a board member of The Rickshaw Film Foundation. 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