Vanessa Vivas is a Venezuelan actress, writer, director, and multi-hyphenate creator based in Brooklyn, NY.
She graduated from Point Park University with a BA in Theatre Arts and a Broadcast Reporting minor in May 2021.
Raised in the city of Doha, Qatar, she has taken her hybrid identity and infused it into her work, focusing on multidimensional storytelling.
She has worked either creatively and/or administratively with Page 73 Productions, The Play Company (NYC), PICT Classic Theatre, Theatre Aspen, Quantum Theatre, Randomly Specific Theatre, PrimeStage Theatre, and Point Park's Conservatory Theatre Company.
She has received honorable mentions for "Best First-Time Director (Female)" and "Best Women Short" at the Independent Shorts Awards for her directorial film debut TRANSPLANT . She premiered her screenwriting debut The Line, an adaptation of an original stage play, on YouTube.
Vanessa is a proud Virgo, loves to play the guitar, and can solve a Rubik's cube in under a minute.
It is no coincidence that my last name Vivas means alive in Spanish. I would emcee and perform in my own shows in my grandma’s backyard under the mandarin tree. I would write stories about skateboards for my mother to make her smile. I would use my parents’ Sony camera to film theme openings to the TV shows in my head. I was the family clown. And the one common thread between all of these is that these are the things I did to feel alive.
At 22 now, the definition has been merely redefined. Alive is seeing other artists pour life into the characters that I have only heard in my head before. Alive is the anticipation before walking out into a room full of eyes and ears. Alive is also the scheduling, scouting, planning, and emailing that binds up the artistic efforts. This is why I have committed my time to writing, acting, directing, and producing. Let's get to work.