Desira Pesta

Birthday: 3 December 1982, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA

Birth Name: Desira Lyn Pesta

Height: 178 cm

Desira Pesta is an East Coast bred visual and performance artist & writer who was raised by two bikers in the woods of Scranton, Pennsylvania. She spent the early part of her life driving tractors ...Show More

Desira Pesta is an East Coast bred visual and performance artist & writer who was raised by two bikers in the woods of Scranton, Pennsylvania. She spent the early part of her life driving tractors, bulldozers, and diesel truck to high school. A tomboy, she spent much of her youth in the woods, which gave way to an enhanced creative inner world. She started acting & writing as a child, finding she preferred perfecting Southern characters, dressing as a male, or taking on the role of an orphan witch in home videos & recordings she created in lieu of "normal" teenager activities. Desira received a BFA in Fine Art from Syracuse University with a minor in Interior Architecture. After college, Desira moved to NYC and as a self-taught seamstress, she started working as an independent fashion designer, one of the first designers on Etsy.com, producing a small ready-to-wear line she sold throughout the US, Australia, the U.K. & Japan from 2005 to 2012. Ever a performer, the screen beckoned her back and with tremendous good luck and hard work, she was invited to join The Screen Actors Guild in 2009.As a fashion & costume designer, Desira's clothing company, started in 2004, has become a favorite amongst indie lovers and Desira was one of the final 25 possible contestants for Project Runway Seasons 7 & 8. With a natural knack for all things creative, she has lived an alternative lifestyle, supporting herself solely through creative hands-on endeavors & projects. She co-founded the John Doe Theatre Company in the summer of 2012.In 2015, Desira acted in and costume designed, Red Pearl (2015) , an independent feature drama by Desert Girl Productions and also featuring her would be Project Runway peer, Mondo Guerra. In 2015, Desira started her Masters studies in Costume Design for Stage & Film at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and will graduate in 2018. Hide