ABOUT ME
Hi, I'm Aria!
I’ve always been a curious one...The kid who asked too many questions, dreamed beyond what I could see in front of me, drew worlds into existence, and got in trouble for wanting to know more. That curiosity never left. It simply found new forms. My creative life began with drawing wildlife and landscapes, making comic strips, and writing stories. Those stories eventually became plays I performed with friends, and later, work that took me to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and across Europe. Storytelling has always been my way of understanding people, culture, eras, and the unseen layers beneath behavior.
I trained as an actor in New York at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, the Neighborhood Playhouse, and The Actors Studio, before continuing my training in England at City Academy and other London-based schools. Living and studying abroad deepened my relationship to text, character, and classical storytelling. I later returned to New York to continue my training. These experiences, across cities, cultures, and disciplines, profoundly shaped my relationship to craft, presence, and truth.
Acting and living abroad taught me to listen deeply, to savor life, and to remain open to emotion, contradiction, and the moment as it unfolds. Over time, the work became less about performance and more about intention. More about meeting both the material and the world with curiosity and courage.
Acting and living abroad taught me to listen deeply, to savor life, and to stay open to emotion, contradiction, and the moment as it unfolds. It became less about performance and more about intention, about meeting the work and the world, with curiosity and courage.
Acting taught me to listen deeply, to savor life, and to stay open to emotion, contradiction, and the moment as it unfolds.
Alongside performance, I’ve worked as an artist and teacher, and spent years immersed in accent and voice coaching. That path eventually led me into metaphysical study and healing work. Another artistic form and language for the same exploration: how energy, voice, body, and belief intersect.
After a period of stepping back from acting to focus on coaching and inner work, I’m returning to performance with greater clarity, depth, and freedom. I no longer separate the parts of myself, bringing craft, intuition, intellect, and play into the same space. That hiatus clarified my relationship to the work. Acting is not something I do to be seen. It’s how I understand connection, presence, and being fully alive. It’s how I engage with others through storytelling and emotional truth.
Born in Central America and raised in Canada, I’m proud of my Latin, Mediterranean, and Sephardic heritage. I grew up in a Spanglish household and am fluent in English and Spanish, as well as Italian, with working knowledge of French. Language, culture, and sound deeply inform how I approach character and voice.
I’m drawn to stories that trust the audience, to characters with agency and contradiction, and to work that feels alive, intimate, intelligent, and occasionally a little strange (in the best way).
CURIOSITY HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY COMPASS...
THE WORK
Acting is where all of my curiosities collide.
It allows me to explore human complexity through embodiment, intellect, instinct, humor, vulnerability, and shadow. I’m drawn to characters with emotional depth, intelligence, and edge. Those who are layered, deep, self-aware, (or on the path to self-awareness).
Curiosity has always been my compass.
Whether on camera, on stage, or behind a microphone, I approach performance as both craft and listening practice.
It’s grounded in truth, specificity, and play, because the most interesting moments often arrive when we stop trying to control them.