Rita Pietropinto-Kitt

Rita Pietropinto-Kitt CC '93, SOA '96 is active in the world of drama.

She was known to approach her now husband, Tom Kitt, in his John Jay dorm to ask him to write the Varsity Show.

While an RA in Wien with her friend Brian Yorkey, Pietropinto-Kitt also introduced Yorkey to Tom Kitt. Yorkey and Kitt have become an award-winning Broadway composing duo, and Pietropinto-Kitt has acted on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regionally, and in television and film, and even won an I. A. L. Diamond Award. She is currently also an adjunct professor in Barnard’s Department of Theatre, where she teaches undergraduate acting.