Adriana Gaviria

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Adriana Gaviria
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Occupation(s)Actor, producer, director, writer, advocate

Adriana Gaviria is an actor, producer, director, writer, and advocate in the United States. 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 theaters. Her advocacy also includes leadership roles with the Parent Artist Advocacy League (PAAL).

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Early life and education

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. [1] [2] She received a BFA from FIU and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. [3] [4]

Gaviria is a former recipient of the Los Angeles Theatre Center (LATC)/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Artistic Leaders Fellowship. [3] 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. [5]

Career

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. [6] As a theater producer, her work includes Amparo the Experience, Frankie and Johnny In The Claire De Lune, and a virtual reading of Borrowed, with fellow producers William Fernandez and George Cabrera, [7] [8] as well as a virtual reading of Jenna and the Whale produced with Fernandez, Jim Kierstead, and Conor Bagley. [9] She has also worked as the Virtual Technical Director for online productions of Two Sisters and a Piano [10] [11] and Jericho. [12]

Film

Gaviria played the lead role of Myra in the 2006 short film, Sueños. The film, directed by Rio Puertollano, was produced by Dreamriver Productions and tells the story of two addicts struggling to survive in the New York City district of Washington Heights. Gaviria later played 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 a producer for Broken Wings and an associate producer for the web series Doin' Great. 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.

Advocacy

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. [13] In 2020, Gaviria was a producer of a virtual reading of Jenna and the Whale that was also a fundraising activity for North Star Projects and the Sol Project. [9]

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. [4] [14] [15] 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. [16] 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. [17]

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," [18] and a video of her 2019 PAAL summit session on December 6, 2019 is featured as an anti-racism resource. [19] Gaviria's work with PAAL has included frequent participation in events, including conferences [20] and forums, [21] and essay writing to promote parent-artist advocacy. [22] She is a member of the PAAL Executive Team and PAAL Board. [23]

Gaviria was a 2018 National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) Advocacy Leadership Institute (ALI) fellow and traveled to Washington, D.C. to lobby lawmakers for NALAC priorities. [24]

She is currently on the Steering Committee for the Latinx Theatre Commons, a movement made up of diverse artists, scholars, and administrators that seek to raise awareness of Latinx theatre. [25] [26]

Critical reception

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." [27] 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." [28] Terry Teachout writes for The Wall Street Journal , "I was especially impressed with Adriana Gaviria, who plays Juliet as a very young-looking maiden, thereby increasing the dramatic charge of her pubescent attraction to Avery Clark's regular-guy Romeo." [29] 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." [30] 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," [31] while Lisa Kennedy of The Denver Post described Gaviria as part of a "gifted group." [32]

Theater credits

TitleRoleNotes
Anna in the TropicsMarela(Dir. Richard Hamburger) Pasadena Playhouse, [30] Arizona Theatre Company, [33] Dallas Theater Center
The Glass MenagerieLaura(Dir. Timothy Bond) Syracuse Stage [34] [35]
Just Like UsYadira(Dir. Kent Thompson) Denver Center [31]
LydiaLydia(Dir. Jasson Minadakis) Marin Theatre Company [27]
Romeo and JulietaJulieta(Dir. Henry Godinez) Chicago Shakespeare Theater (staged reading) [36]
The Count of Monte CristoHaydee(Dir. Charles Morey) Alabama Shakespeare Festival
Romeo and JulietJuliet(Dir. Geoffrey Sherman) Alabama Shakespeare Festival [28] [29]
Stories on StageVarious(Dir. Norma Moore) Denver Center
The Escape Artist's ChildrenAngie(Dir. Pam MacKinnon) Vassar/NY Stage & Film
September ShoesAna(Dir. Amy Gonzalez) Denver Center [37]
Juanita's StatueBeatriz/Others(Dir. Leah Gardiner) Hartford Stage
Luscious MusicSony(Dir. Michael Garcés) Working Theater
The Black EyedTamam(Dir. Betty Shamieh) Immigrants' Theatre Project
Journey TheatreMarina/Others(Dir. Marcy Arlin/Victor Maog) Immigrants' Theatre Project
Little Pitfall (Pasticka)Nannette Deasy(Dir. Flipsxz Flipsxz) Immigrants' Theatre Project [38]
The BirdsMs. Jekyl/Iris(Dir. Christopher Bayes) Yale Repertory Theatre [39]
CabaretHelga-Kit Kat Girl(Dir. William Frears) Yale Cabaret
TradeDarla(Dir. Valentina Fratti) Young Playwrights Festival [40]
The CubansVero(Dir. Victoria Collado) Miami New Drama [41]
She Stoops to ConquerConstance Neville(Dir. Therald Todd) FIU Theatre Department [42]
Dancing at LughnasaAgnes(Dir. Therald Todd) FIU Theatre Department [43]
The Rose TattooRosa(Dir. Wayne E. Robinson) FIU Theatre Department [44]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2004The BakeryN/AHair Stylist
2006SueñosMyra
2008TamarindN/AAssistant director and makeup artist
2011Broken WingsN/AAssistant director and makeup artist
2019You and I, AlwaysCamillaAlso writer for additional text
2021Crabs in a BarrelCassie
TBADoin' GreatN/APost-production; associate producer

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2009Law & Order:Lucy Valdez
2011Person of InterestChristina Rojas

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