G A B R I E L A CASTILLO-Miranda

Gabriela Castillo-Miranda (she/her) is an Afro-Caribbean American Latina actor, comedian and writer currently based in Chicago. She was born in Havana, Cuba,  and has African, Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese ancestry. In 1998, Gabriela and her parents were resettled to Louisville, KY as humanitarian refugees after immigrating to the United States. Gabriela earned an MFA in Acting from the University of South Carolina's Professional Actors Training Program, a BA in Music from Northern Kentucky University, and completed the Second City Conservatory Program in 2022.

Gabriela wrote, co-produced, and performed the solo show Lady Alhambra for the 2018 MFA Solo Show Series at the Center for Performance Experiment (Columbia, SC). She is now adapting it as a full-length musical play.  She's a contributing writer for sketch comedy ensemble Ratas De Dos Patas, and has written for their variety show Ratas Gigantes (2023).

Theatre Credits include: Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, Coriolanus (American Shakespeare Center), The River Bride, Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet (American Players Theatre), Y Tu Abuela, Where is She? (Visión Latino), Back In The Day (Urban Theater Company), Sergio's Museum (Theatre[502]), Erógenas: Sexo, Amor, y Fuga (Teatro Fragmentario), The Tempest (Warehouse Theatre), The Water Station, Clearing, Flight (P3East), Seagull, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Silent Sky, Mr. Burns, Animal Farm the Musical (University of South Carolina), She's With Me; Dude, Where's My Dog?! (Dream Factory Entertainment), Woman in the Wall (Columbia College).