A sassy, sensible, Sagittarius.
Ricardo Lopez-Montilla is a Venezuelan-American artist based out of NYC, with roots in Houston, Texas and St. Croix, U.S.V.I.
He is a classically trained actor with a passion for Shakespeare and movement work. His acting credits include a bilingual workshop of Othello, Santiago, at the Guthrie Theatre; Pre-Production for Evita (dir. Sammi Cannold) and Love Life (dir. Victoria Clark) at New York City Center; Lear, Something Rotten!, The Comedy of Errors, and Todrick-The-Not-So-Terrible at Texas Shakespeare Festival; and Oklahoma! at Theatre Under the Stars. He is a trained actor, dancer, and singer with extensive experience in dialects and stage combat. He proudly holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Texas State University in Acting, Summa Cum Laude.
He has taught dialects at the prestigious Carol Hickey Acting Studio, as well as at Jeremy Torres Lab Theatre, under mentor Kate Glasheen.
Artistic Mission
He believes in the power of fun. His mission is to have fun and spread the fun to audiences. He believes fun is found where you look for it: and he has made it his mission to seek it out and share it. Radical Joy and Radical Fun are the backbone of what he creates as an artist.
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Raised in the U.S. Virgin Islands, he is not afraid of the ocean or sharks, but he is always cold. Once at a swim meet he got dead last in all six heats, but his mother said “you swim so beautifully,” which somewhat consoled him. He loves food and has documented over 50 smoothie recipes on Instagram, many of which are quite bad. When not performing you can find him hiking, making vegetarian food, and naming his Pokemon after his favorite drag queens.