Biography

Adriana Sevan is an award winning NYC born actor and playwright. Recent TV/Film: Namaslay, Grey's Anatomy, ABC's 9-1-1, HBO's NYLFF awardee, Eddie Mujica's, LOCO. Theatre: Matthew Lopez's SOMEWHERE at DCPA dir: Laurie Woolery, ENCANTO'S Charise Castro Smith's, EL HURACAN, Yale Rep (CCC Award Best Supporting Actor) dir: Laurie Woolery & GableStage (Carbonell Best Actor Nom.) dir: Damaso Rodriguez, LAS MUJERES DEL MAR, by RIVERDALE’S executive producer/writer, Janine Salinas Schoenberg, directed by Diane Rodriguez, Karen Zacarias' DESTINY OF DESIRE at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Maria Irene Fornes' THE CONDUCT OF LIFE dir: Jose Luis Valenzuela.

Adriana’s solo show, TAKING FLIGHT, developed at the Sundance Theatre Lab, had its world premiere, produced by Center Theatre Group, at KDT, directed by Giovanna Sardelli. Hailed a "celebration of life," and "one of the 10 best plays of the year," also at Goodman Theater, San Diego Rep (San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award), Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival Award, the audio CD, by LA Theatre Works, for "The Play’s The Thing," was a finalist for the Best Solo Audie Award.

TV/Film: 9-1-1, Days Of Our Lives, Law & Order, The Unit, Sex & The City, Deadline, Dellaventura, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Film: Loco, Harvest (with Robert Loggia & Barbara Barrie), Stephen King's Thinner.

Off B’way Theatre & Regional: Somewhere (Denver Center), Destiny of Desire (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Conduct of Life (Rosenthal Theatre), The Children (Boston Court), Taking Flight (KDT, San Diego Rep, Fountain, Goodman, Teatro Vision), Boleros for the Disenchanted (Yale Rep), The Clean House (SCR), Anna in the Tropics (SCR, Coconut Grove) Two Sisters and a Piano (The Public, SCR), Henry V (Shakespeare & Co.), and Macbeth (HERE) King Lear (w/Kristin Linklater as Lear.)

Playwright: produced by and developed at Sundance Theater Lab, South Coast Rep, LAByrinth Theatre Co, Mark Taper Writers Lab, Goodman, LATW, Stages Theatre, Fountain, INTAR, and The Lark. Published by Samuel French, Northwestern Press, Smith & Kraus, Routledge Press and American Theatre magazine. Recipient of the Middle East America Distinguished Playwright Award, which commissioned, Night Over Erzinga, premiering at Golden Thread, Silk Road Rising and translated into Armenian and produced at, Yerevan State Theatre, April 2015, in honor of the 100 year anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

She has taught nationally and internationally at CalArts, Goodman, Summer Acting Conservatory at UCLA, OSF, UCSB, SOU: Cesar E. Chavez Leadership Conf., University of Oregon, ORRAN center for at risk youth in Yerevan, Armenia, TEADA, and Create Now.
- IMDb mini biography by: Adriana Sevan