Viviana Leo is an incredibly accomplished Puerto Rican filmmaker. A lifelong Feminist, she
speaks three languages, studied English and Dramaturgy at Columbia (B.A.) with Jim Leverett,
has an M.F.A. in Screenwriting from the Killer Films program at Stony Brook University, and is a
published author (Latina Magazine, Huffington Post). She interned at the Williamstown Theatre
Festival, studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, and was an inaugural
member of the Old Vic New Voices program under Eve Best. Viviana’s first feature, White
Alligator, toured the world and won Best Actress at the prestigious Bled Film Festival in
Slovenia. Most recently, her script, Blue for Boy, was a finalist for the Sundance Development
Lab. She mentors rising female screenwriters through Girls Write Now, produced a male heir,
and her mother-in-law still doesn’t like her.

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