Hi, I’m Andrea.

I’m an actor and emerging writer and director. Growing up in a vibrant, Spanish-speaking household filled with visual artists, I was immersed in storytelling from an early age. My first taste of acting came at four years old when I played Angel #2 - or was it #3 - in my preschool’s nativity play, but the real acting bug hit at eleven when I was cast as (insert evil laughter) Jafar in my primary school’s Aladdin Jr. musical — fake beard and all.

After years of schooling and a brief university stint that ended when I was accepted into drama school, I graduated from Screenwise Film & Television School in 2020 — I’m a firm believer in creating your own opportunities, which led me to write, direct, and produce my debut short film Bedbound (2023). The film received both national and international recognition, screening at festivals including the Melbourne Women in Film Festival and winning Best Editing at Bulgaria’s Golden Femi Film Festival.

I have also been lucky to direct my lovely creative friends’ work including short film, Trash (2025) and Web series Scenes from a Film (2024-2026).

More recently I wrote, directed, and starred in my Spanglish-coming of age short film Everyone Gets Bored of Everything (2025), which was part of the official selection for the Multicultural Film Festival in Melbourne, nominated for Best National Short film. It is currently doing the Festival Circuit and will be available for streaming on SBS on Demand at the end of 2026 for 12 months.

With an artistic voice grounded in empathy, I thrive on crafting emotionally nuanced stories that many people are afraid to tell and explore — stories rooted in shame, pain, embarrassment, passion and everything in between. I’m drawn to these narratives because I want them to stay with audiences when they need them most, to offer comfort or as the artist César A. Cruz so aptly put, “Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.”