Adriana Santos is a Colombian-American playwright, screenwriter, actor and filmmaker. She is a trilingual daughter of immigrants from Miami and part of a wave of immigrants’ children who look just like their parents but don’t have their accents. Her work aims to specify an experience of not quite fitting into Latina stereotypes or traditionally white American ways of life yet feeling both wholly Latina and American at the same time.
She has a BFA in Drama and minor in Creative Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA in Playwriting from The Writer's Foundry at St. Joseph’s University in Brooklyn.
She wrote, directed and acted in an original one act play, Aguantando, at Tisch’s Experimental Theatre Wing in 2016 and since then her plays, including full lengths ELENA, Catholic...
Adriana Santos is a Colombian-American playwright, screenwriter, actor and filmmaker. She is a trilingual daughter of immigrants from Miami and part of a wave of immigrants’ children who look just like their parents but don’t have their accents. Her work aims to specify an experience of not quite fitting into Latina stereotypes or traditionally white American ways of life yet feeling both wholly Latina and American at the same time.
She has a BFA in Drama and minor in Creative Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA in Playwriting from The Writer's Foundry at St. Joseph’s University in Brooklyn.
She wrote, directed and acted in an original one act play, Aguantando, at Tisch’s Experimental Theatre Wing in 2016 and since then her plays, including full lengths ELENA, Catholic All Girls School and Cris Leaves Queens, have been read, workshopped and produced as staged readings in New York, LA and regionally. Catholic All Girls School was workshopped as part of IAMA Theatre Company’s Under30Lab in 2020. A TV pilot adaptation of that play was an official selection of The Gotham’s Project Market in 2021. In 2022 Adriana co-wrote IAMA’s mainstage play, Celestial Events, in which she also acted and which ran to rave reviews. Cris Leaves Queens was read at IAMA’s 2022 New Works Festival and received a workshop and staged reading in Boulder, CO with Local Theater Company as part of their Local Lab 12.
Screenwriting credits include co-writing the narrative short Shutterbird, directed by Justin R. Ching, and writing The End of the Party, a short directed by Kate Sullivan. Most recently, Adriana completed her film directorial debut with her original short, Hey You Guys, in which she also acted.
As an actor, Adriana has worked extensively across film, TV and theatre. Recent credits include: series regular on the Showtime pilot, Hombre, recurring roles on Animal Kingdom (TNT) and 9-1-1 (FOX), guest stars on The Rookie (ABC), Daredevil (Netflix), and Taken (NBC) and the world premiere of the immersive theatre play G7:2070 by William Hector and directed by Victoria Collado which took place at The Kampong Botanical Garden in Miami, FL.
Adriana is a current company member of IAMA Theatre Company as a playwright and actor, an alumna of IAMA’s Emerging Playwrights Lab and Ensemble Studio Theatre LA’s New West Playwrights group and was a founding member of the Latinx Playwrights Circle in New York City.