Adriana Gaviria

Adriana Gaviria is an American actor, voice-over artist, writer, director, advocate, and creative producer. She is a founding member and artistic producer of The Sol Project, a national initiative to support Latinx theater, and the founder and producing artistic director for North Star Projects, an arts initiative that supports independent artists and theater organizations. Gaviria's activism includes advocacy on behalf of parent-artists with the Parent Artist Advocacy League (PAAL).
Adriana Gaviria was born in New York City and raised in Miami, Florida. She graduated from Florida International University (FIU) and pursued her acting career at the Yale School of Drama. She received a BFA from FIU and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. She went on to act in theatre productions and films, later also becoming a producer.
Gaviria is a former recipient of the Los Angeles Theatre Center (LATC)/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Artistic Leaders Fellowship. After applying for an artistic leadership fellowship in LA, Gaviria was inspired to create change in New York City, including by advocating and producing for the Latinx theatre community.
=== Theatre ===
Gaviria has performed in classical and contemporary works in many theaters across the nation, including the Yale Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Arizona Theatre Company, Pasadena Playhouse, Marin Theatre Company, Alabama Shakespeare Festival and the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
=== Film ===
Gaviria played the lead role in the short film, 235 Willow St., released by Soul Ace Productions. 
Released in 2006, Gaviria played the lead role of Myra in the short film, Sueños. The film, directed by Rio Puertollano, was produced by Dreamriver Productions. It tells the story of two addicts struggling to survive in the New York City district of Washington Heights.
Gaviria would later go on to play the lead of Camilla, a young Brazilian mother, in the short, You and I, Always (2019), directed by Ellen Marmol.
Gaviria was the assistant director for the short films, Tamarind (2008) and Broken Wings (2011). She was also a producer for Broken Wings and an associate producer for the web series Doin' Great, which is currently in post-production.
Gaviria has also worked in the makeup and hairstyling departments for Tamarind and The Bakery (2004).
=== Television ===
In 2009, Gaviria saw her television breakout with her co-star role as Lucy Valdez in Law & Order: Criminal Intent. She would later co-star on CBS's Person of Interest as Christina Rojas in 2011.
=== Activism ===
Gaviria is the founder and producing artistic director for North Star Projects, an arts initiative that partners with artists, cultural leaders, organizations, and theaters around the country to help support independent artists and theater organizations. 
She is also a founding member, artistic producer, and SolFest producer for The Sol Project, a national theater initiative launched in 2016 to support Latinx theater. The Sol Project operates out of New York City and works with Off-Broadway companies to stage productions for Latinx playwrights at various points in their careers. In 2016, Sol Project artistic director Jacob Padrón told The New York Times that the long-term goal of the Sol Project is to "create a new canon" of Latinx theater. 
Gaviria has also worked on the advisory board and steering committee for the Parent Artist Advocacy League (PAAL), which is "a national community, resource hub, and solutions generator for individuals with caregiver responsibilities and institutions who strive to support them," and a video of her 2019 PAAL summit session on December 6, 2019 is featured as an anti-racism resource. Gaviria's work with PAAL has included frequent participation in events, including conferences and forums, and essay writing to promote parent-artist advocacy.
Gaviria was a 2018 National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) Advocacy Leadership Institute (ALI) fellow and traveled to Washington, D.C. to lobby lawmakers for NALAC priorities.
She is currently on the Steering Committee for the Latinx Theatre Commons, a movement made up of diverse artists, scholars, and administrators that seeks to spread knowledge and awareness of Latinx theatre.
Title 	Role 	Notes
Anna in the Tropics 	Marela 	(Dir. Richard Hamburger) Pasadena Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company, Dallas Theater Center
The Glass Menagerie 	Laura 	(Dir. Timothy Bond) Syracuse Stage
Just Like Us 	Yadira 	(Dir. Kent Thompson) Denver Center
Lydia 	Lydia 	(Dir. Jasson Minadakis) Marin Theatre Company
Romeo and Julieta 	Julieta 	(Dir. Henry Godinez) Chicago Shakespeare Theater
The Count of Monte Cristo 	Haydee 	(Dir. Charles Morey) Alabama Shakesepeare Festival
Romeo and Juliet 	Juliet 	(Dir. Geoffrey Sherman) Alabama Shakespeare Festival
Stories on Stage 	Various 	(Dir. Norma Moore) Denver Center
The Escape Artist's Children	Angie 	(Dir. Pam MacKinnon) Vassar/NY Stage & Film
September Shoes 	Ana/Juan/Lily Chu 	(Dir. Amy Gonzalez) Denver Center
Juanita's Statue 	Beatriz/Others 	(Dir. Leah Gardiner) Hartford Stage
Luscious Music 	Sony 	(Dir. Michael Garcés) Working Theater
The Black Eyed 	Tamam 	(Dir. Betty Shamieh) Immigrants' Theatre Project
Journey Theatre 	Marina/Others 	(Dir. Marcy Arlin/Victor Maog) Immigrants' Theatre Project
The Birds 	Ms. Jekyl/Iris/Finch	(Dir. Christopher Bayes) Yale Repertory Theatre
Cabaret 	Helga-Kit Kat Girl 	(Dir. William Frears) Yale Cabaret
Trade 	Darla 	(Dir. Valentina Fratti) Young Playwrights Festival
The Cubans 	Vero 	(Dir. Victoria Collado) Miami New Drama
She Stoops to Conquer 	Constance Neville 	(Dir. Therald Todd) FIU Theatre Department
Dancing at Lughnasa 	Agnes 	(Dir. Therald Todd) FIU Theatre Department
The Rose Tattoo 	Rosa 	(Dir. Wayne E. Robinson) FIU Theatre Department
=== Film ===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
 	235 Willow St. 	Lead 	
2004	The Bakery 	N/A 	Hair Stylist
2006	Sueños 	Myra 	
2008	Tamarind 	N/A 	Assistant director and makeup artist
2011	Broken Wings 	N/A 	Assistant director and makeup artist
2019	You and I, Always	Camilla	Also writer for additional text
TBA 	Doin' Great 	N/A 	Post-production; associate producer
=== Television ===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
2009	Law & Order: 	Lucy Valdez 	
2011	Person of Interest	Christina Rojas	
In 2009, San Francisco Chronicle theater critic Robert Hurwitt described Gaviria's performance as the title role in Lydia as "Beautiful and focused," writing that "Gaviria embodies the charisma with which Lydia galvanizes the household, awakening Ceci and enchanting David Pintado's smart, attentive, poetic, adolescent younger brother, Misha." Philip Kolin of the Shakespeare Bulletin reviewed Romeo and Juliet, presented by the Alabama Shakespeare Festival in 2008, and wrote, "While Avery Clark’s Romeo and Adriana Gaviria’s Juliet did not speak with Hispanic accents, they nonetheless powerfully captured the passion and horror of a high-tech Miami of the mind." In a 2005 review of Anna in the Tropics at The Pasadena Playhouse, Laura Hitchcock writes for CurtainUp magazine that "Gaviria's interpretation of an effervescent teenager is too contemporary but Gaviria shows her range in the tragic closing scenes." In 2013, Michael Mulhern of BroadwayWorld described Gaviria's performance as Yadira in Just Like Us (written by Karen Zacarías, based on the book by Helen Thorpe) as "outstanding," while Lisa Kennedy of The Denver Post described Gaviria as part of a "gifted group."
Category:American actors
Category:American voice actors
Category:Producers