About Anita
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Anita is a Venezuelan-Norwegian actor and singer based in NYC.
Originally from Boulder, Colorado, she received an MFA in Acting from Brown University in 2019, after three years of graduate training at Trinity Rep. She additionally studied at the British American Drama Academy.
She is a faculty artist for Middlebury College’s Beyond The Page program and an artistic advisor to Notch Theatre Company, of which she is an ensemble member. She is a co-founder of Taproot Creatives, a theater and film collective which uplifts new work by women and other marginalized genders.
In television, Anita appears in recurring roles on FBI (CBS) and Law & Order (NBC). In New York, she has worked with Red Bull Theater, Clubbed Thumb, New Dramatists, New Ohio Theatre, Irondale, The Chain, The Tank, Theater for the New City, and Under St. Mark’s Theater among others.
Anita has served as an actor, facilitator, and instructor for several educational institutions such as the CUNY Creative Arts Team, Brown University, Swarthmore College, Young Actors Summer Institute, and Bread Loaf School of English.
about the art
values for the work
Break it open. An artist’s responsibility is to coax out of daily reality a sense of the boundless. There is no limit to human beings’ layers of identity. How do we reveal and surprise each other with these layers, instead of neutering them with rules and labels?
Make it wacky. Humans are wild, life ends at any moment, and every person has the potential for joy. How do we maintain a sense of play, even (and especially) when what we are making is impossibly painful?
Keep it honest. Whoever receives the work will know if and when we are lying. Why do we lie in our work, and how can we end this habit? How can we do what we mean, instead of doing what we seemingly should?
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