Co-Artistic Director
Founding Member
SolFest Producer
ADRIANA
GAVIRIA
she/her/ella
Adriana Gaviria is an actress, voice-over artist, writer, director, advocate and creative producer. She is Founding Member and Co-Artistic Director of The Sol Project, Producer of SolFest, and Founder of North Star Projects, an arts initiative hoping to create a better world, one project at a time. She is also Founder of the North Star Projects LatinéShortsFest, now in its fourth year. She serves on the national advisory boards of 50 Playwrights Project and FIU Theatre Alumni, on the executive team of Parent Artist Advocacy League, and on the national steering committees of DRAMA and Latinx Theatre Commons, which was awarded the Peter Zeisler Memorial Award at the TCG National Conference in 2017.
Adriana has performed at regional theaters across the nation—most notably Yale Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Denver Center, Arizona Theatre Company, Pasadena Playhouse, Marin Theatre Company, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Miami New Drama. In New York, she has worked with numerous theater companies and organizations including The Public Theater, Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Repertorio Español, Working Theater, The 52nd Street Project, IATI Theater, Chelsea Factory, National Queer Theater, HERE Arts Center, and New York Stage and Film. Her television and film credits include "Person of Interest," "Law & Order: CI," "Sueños" and "Crabs in a Barrel," an HBO Latinx Short Film Competition wInner.
Her background in higher education includes serving as a theater instructor at Florida International University (FIU). Separately, her background with youth includes working as an actor and director with The 52nd Street Project, alongside past work as an actor for Young Playwrights Inc. and a volunteer reader for BookPALS.
Awards include the 2023 Diane Rodriguez Teatrista Award, the Los Angeles Theatre Center/Andrew W. Mellon Artistic Leader Fellowship, Fox Fellowship, and National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts scholarship. She has participated in Cornerstone Theater Company's 2DI in Los Angeles, an intensive training in creating theater with and for communities. She is a graduate of the 2017 National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) Leadership Institute and the 2018 NALAC Advocacy Leadership Institute. She is a member of the 2026 Actor Training Laboratorio cohort. Ms. Gaviria received her BFA from Florida International University and her MFA from The David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University. She is a proud member of The Actors Center, SAG-AFTRA and the Actors' Equity Association. Adriana embraces the human spirit and aims to empower, inspire and build community through her work.