Vivian Rubio

Her mother came from a large family of amateur musicians, and her father is from Cuba and immigrated to Venezuela in 1969. Since she was 5, she loved dancing, singing and telling jokes (which her older sister never found funny). Her parents were able to enroll her in a few dance classes but due to financial problems, her parents could not enroll her anymore. This didn’t stop her from performing an

d she became a comedian and would sing using cassettes and recorders and perform in front of uncles, aunts and cousins. At the age of 12 she was involved in the theatrical production of Snow White (brown version in Venezuela). Because of her dreamy nature and Walt Disney, she has always dreamed of the impossible being possible (dreams, dreams and more dreams), but her parents could barely afford to feed the family and in a moment of desperation the family immigrated to the United States in 2001. At the age of 17, Vivian started her professional theater career in the United States with a Cuban theater company by the name Teatro Obstaculo. Most of this theater work was written by Victor Varela: a theater director, musician and dramaturge. In 2008 Vivian toured in the East Coast with Man of La Mancha as Aldonza with the Hispanic Flamenco Ballet. In 2010 she won as best actress in a TV show called Quiero Ser Estrella- Univision, in the same year she got accepted into New World School of the Arts Conservatory Acting Program in Miami (where alum Tarrel Alvin McCraney went). She graduated after 4 years with honors working in many different plays including her own one-person-show Cleansing the Soul and was cast in A Flea In Her Ear, as Raymond (the lead character). In 2014, after graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts she moved to Los Angeles and she is graduating this year with an M.F.A. from UCLA. She’s been making America great and living the dream in Los Angeles as a proud SAG-AFTRA member and a working actor.