VICTORIA PETTIBONE Executive Producer/Director of Operations

Victoria is the Co-Founder, Executive Producer and Director of Operations of WET. She has developed and produced all of WET’s productions, events and programs. Victoria is the recipient of the Avon Hello Tomorrow Fund Award for the media literacy / leadership program for teenage girls that she co-created and runs with Sasha, WET’s Risk Takers Film Series which has featured special guests artists including Frances McDormand, Olympia Dukakis, Kerry Washington, Mary-Louise Parker, Ally Sheedy and Lili Taylor among others. She was also the March 2007 Women’s Health Magazine’s Action Figure, featured for her socially-active work with WET’s Risk Takers Film Series.

Victoria’s background includes time as a Casting Director. Selected casting credits include the Off-Broadway musical Once Around the Sun, Matt and Ben, and the New York Casting for Sky High (Disney). Previously she worked for Bernard Telsey Casting and was responsible for the ongoing casting of the Broadway hit RENT. With an eye for finding new talent, she cast the IFC/Killer Films/Jersey Films feature Camp with an extraordinary cast of unknowns, and was recognized for her work in the LA Times among other reviews.  She also found newcomer Rob Brown to star opposite Sean Connery in Gus Van Sant's film Finding Forrester.

Victoria is a board member of the Alliance of Resident Theatres, New York (ART/NY). She grew up in New York City, but went west for college, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University with a BA in Social/Cultural Anthropology and a minor in French. She spent a year of college studying in Cameroon and Paris.