- Petronia hitched-hiked across North Africa at age 19.
- She wrote and illustrated a children's book.
- She studied Indian cooking with a two Indian gurus.
- Petronia Paley was Morgan Freeman's and David Canary's business partner on the TV soap opera Another World.
- Petronia Paley is an actor, director, playwright and teacher.
- She collects vintage clothes and dolls.
- She appeared on Hollywood Squares.
- She received a Women of Color directing award with her first directing play "Can We Dance".
- Her solo-performance play "On the Way to Timbuktu" was nominated for five Innovative Theatre Awards: Nominated for two Innovative Theatre Awards, three Audelco Acting Awards, and won an Audelco Award for Best Solo Performance.
- She dropped out of college, and later returned to graduate.
- She founded "First Reading", an emerging playwright reading series, at the Nuyorican Poets Café.
- She has directed both classical, contemporary and new plays.
- Petronia majored in drama at Howard University.
- She performed in Greece at an ancient amphitheatre under a full moon.
- Petronia has acted on TV's Damages, Guiding Light, Another World, One Life to Live, and All My Children. She's also acted on and off Broadway and in regional theaters.
- She was President of the drama club in college.
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