Vivia Font

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Vivia Font is an actress and performance collaborator. Most recently, she wrote, produced, and acted in a short film called Honk. She played Ellie in the bilingual short Shallow End by Maria de la Cruz and worked on an upcoming feature film. She cast and voice acted in Shame on You! an animated documentary by VizArts director Jeffrey Himpele. Vivia has worked extensively in voiceover commercials, video games, and audiobooks (including a book by Ada Ferrer, now at Princeton).

Onstage, she recently performed in the world premieres of A Brief List of Everyone Who Died by Jacob Marx Rice in London and The Art of Burning by Kate Snodgrass at the Huntington Theatre and Hartford Stage. Memories of Overdevelopment, a virtual film/piece by Caridad Svitch (produced by The Workshop Theater) was accepted into the International Online Theatre Festival in 2023.

Her NYC theater credits include PlayOn! (Classic Stage Company), Recent Alien Abductions (SoHo Rep), and villa (The Wild Project), both produced by PlayCo; a 6-person Romeo & Juliet with NY Classical Theatre; underneathmybed (Rattlestick); and other work with The Atlantic Theater, The Public, The Vineyard, Ensemble Studio Theatre, SOL Project, Primary Stages, LABrynth, The Lark, and others. Her regional credits include Oregon Shakespeare Festival (2 seasons), The Old Globe, Cincinnati Playhouse, The Denver Center, McCarter Theatre and others. Font has done multiple plays by Tanya Saracho (VIDA) and collaborated with acclaimed artists such as Guillermo Calderón, Karen Zacarias, Octavio Solis, Juliette Carrillo, Caridad Svitch, Melia Bensussen, Florencia Lozano, and Adrian Noble among others. Her film and television credits include Law & Order, FBI: Most Wanted, For Life, One Life to Live, Sarbane’s Oxley, and Love, Repeat.

As a director, Vivia has worked on contemporary, new and classical plays and collaborations. She has produced events such as Among Trees in Princeton, and she is a founding member of the Princeton Actors Collective.

Font has various writing projects in the works, including a bilingual (Spanish) pilot about first-generation Latinos in the US, an identity which she shares.

She received a BFA from NYU Tisch (Playwrights Horizons) and MFA from USD/The Old Globe. She is an Associate Artist with NY Classical and a member of The Actors Center.

Actor, writer, director, producer, educator, and new mom from Central New Jersey, Vivia Font shares her story about Opening Night / Opening Right for New Jersey Theatre Alliance.

Memories of Overdevelopment screens at The International Online Theatre Festival, April 17-30, 2023.