ARTURO LUÍZ SORIA 

Arturo Luíz Soria is an actor, writer, producer, and the founder of VagaMundo Productions. His solo show Ni Mi Madre premiered off-Broadway at Rattlestick Theater and went on to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, winning Obie and Offie awards. His play Novios has been a semifinalist/finalist for The O'Neill, Ojai, and an honorable mention for the Relentless Award. It has been developed at Yale Cabaret, Pride Plays at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop Mondays @ 3 reading series, and the Latinx New Play Festival at La Jolla Playhouse. He has received a micro-commission from the Lucille Lortel Alcove Development Program, two NYSCA grants, and a MacDowell fellowship. His next solo show The White Whale Journal has been developed at Rattlestick Theatre, The Flea, Theaterlab, and Downtown Urban Arts Festival. Arturo adapted the novel Bodega Dreams to screen with Black Bar Mitzvah Productions and Votiv Films, slated to be directed by Angel Manuel Soto.

As an actor, recent credits include Broadway’s Tony Award winning play The Inheritance; off-Broadway’s Wet Brain (World Premiere), Hit the Wall (World Premiere); and many regional productions across the country. His TV/Film credits include CIA, Found, Insatiable, The Blacklist, East New York, and the upcoming features, Pimp Shit and Mermaid — which premiered at CineQuest earlier this year.

Arturo was part of the inaugural class of TV writers in the Hillman Grad Mentorship Program. He holds a BFA from The Theater School at DePaul University, an MFA in Acting from Yale School of Drama, and a current playwright in Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program.