“charming, kindhearted, headstrong”
AT A GLANCE
SAG Union | One-Man Show Veteran | Fluently Bilingual Spanish/English | Improv Training & Shakespeare Training
People love asking him for directions, or advice, and his friends say that if they were to backpack through a foreign country, he’s the guy they want to make the trip with.
LATEST HIGHLIGHTS
ACTOR:
Catch him performing his one-man play adaptation of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz with theater company Literature to Life.
MUSIC:
catch his latest set from the ‘Pizza Zoo before Christmas’ now up on his SoundCloud page CHICO BEMBÉ
mini-bio
Kelvin is a Dominican American actor from Washington Heights, New York City. Though he graduated from the University of Virginia (2013) with his degree in Architecture, he left that field and instead launched an acting career in 2017 with the one-man show The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - adapted & presented by the theater company Literature to Life - a show in which he plays 10+ characters from Junot Diaz's Pulitzer Prize winning novel. He is a multi-talented artist with a passion for storytelling, often working as an actor, filmmaker, producer, spoken word performer, and as a DJ under the pseudonym CHICO BEMBÉ. He has starred on numerous independent projects in off-off Broadway theater (She Hates Coffee, Room28 Comedy), regional theater (Queen of Basel, King Lear), independent film (La Tierra, No More Lonely People), voice over (Corner Wolves, Michelle Rojas is Not Okay), and new media works (Guap, DominicanYork). He received his actor training with acting troupe Humanity Studios under the guidance of acting coach Shae D'lyn (Dharma & Greg), as well as from MN Acting Studio. He loves taking on tragic hero roles – playing the confident fool with a heart of gold that often finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.
"...as a dark skin Dominican man living in America I know the importance of representation in the stories we see; and that makes the pursuit both necessary and worthwhile"
