Ariana Lebron is a nominated and award-winning Dominican actress, movement director, producer, teacher, and representative of Dominican culture, based in London. Despite her young age she has worked in several countries around the globe, from the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, France, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, with a range of well-known directors, such as Joe Pytka, Fernando Báez, David Herrera. Apart from directing her own work, she also contributed as a director in the movement piece “You will fail her”, sponsored by the Art Council in England under the Theatre Company Immersive Theatre. She was nominated as best lead actress for her performance in Flor de Azucar in 2016, and presented as the face of the DYSPLA Film Festival in 2017. Ariana has recently worked with the award-winning Mexican director, Michelle Cervera Garza on the film called “The Original”. “The Original” has been in festivals in countries such as Mexico, United States of America, England, Canada among other countries. Ariana won Best Lead Actress for her role in “The Original” in Short to the Point International Film Festival this year celebrated in Romania awarding the film screening in twenty countries. In 2020, she acted in the film Sole Mate from the award winning director Rebekah Fortune, funded by BAFTA Shorts.
Ariana graduated with distinction from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, obtained her postgraduate diploma in Trinity Laban specialising in movement and contemporary dance, and developed a workshop called “The Body Architecture and the Word of Movement” based on her thesis.
She is one of the founding members of Interzone Production, who are currently working on feature films “Los Gavilleros” and “La Reina del Carnaval”, as well as a short film “Un Pasaje sin Regreso”, the winner of the Fonprocine award in 2017. Two of the three films are based on scripts written by Dominican artists residing in London.
"Ariana Lebròn is a versatile actress, dancer and movement director who has worked at an international level. She is in a constant evolution, researching and reinventing herself. Ariana is a big Academic encourager in constant search of ways of understanding and analysing the creative process, and everything that surrounds her practice. Her deep, dark, humorous and experimental way of expressing social-political issues, autobiographical experiences, her understanding of the performing body and her work with young adults has earn her the title of artist philanthropist. Ariana Lebron speaks fluent Spanish, English and German, as well as basic Portuguese."