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About Me

I am here because I believe dreams don't have to die they just come to life in a different form than you envision sometimes and it can be better than you dreamt! It's what happened to me and I want to share the hope. Don't let anyone tell you dreams don't come true, that would only be THEIR truth about their their dream!I AM CURRENTLY FEATURED ON CATALINA TV AT WWW.CATALINAMAGAZINE.COM. EPISODE 10. PLEASE CHECK IT OUT! ADRIANA GARZA ONTHIS ARTICLE IS FROM THE SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS PUBLICATION CONEXION. YOU CAN READ IT CLEARLY IN THE PRESS SECTION OF THE GALLERY PAGE OF WWW.ADRIANAGARZA.COMAFTER TWO SUCCESSFUL RUNS IN HOLLYWOOD IN 2006, MY PLAY, THE ART OF BEING IS HITTING THE ROAD. THE ART OF BEING TOUR KICKED OFF ON MAY 5,2007 AT THE UNIVERSITY TEXAS,EL PASO WITH THE PROCEEDS BENEFITING THEIR THEATER DEPARTMENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND. THE ART OF BEING WILL BE AT THE BAILIWICK IN CHICAGO ON AUGUST 25, 2007 AT 6PM WITH A RECEPTION FOLLOWING THE PERFORMANCE AT JOEY'S BRICKHOUSE FOR TICKETHOLDERS AND THE PROCEEDS ARE BENEFITING BAILIWICK'S SECOND SEX SERIES DEDICATED TO THE ARTS THAT GIVE WOMEN PROMINENCE. TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE BAILIWICK BOX OFFICE AND TICKETMASTER SOON. LOOK FOR THE ART OF BEING IN SAN ANTONIO IN SEPTEMBER. IF YOU LIVE IN ANY OF THOSE CITIES PLEASE LOG ON TO WWW.ADRIANAGARZA.COM AND CLICK ON THE ART OF BEING PAGE FOR UPDATED INFORMATION. TOUR VIDEO COMING SOON! OUR NEXT STOP OF THE ART OF BEING TOUR IS AT THE BAILIWICK IN CHICAGO ON AUGUST 25,2007. PLEASE CHECK WWW.ADRIANAGARZA.COM FOR MORE INFORMATION. THE ART OF BEING MADE IT TO EL PASO! THIS THE SIGN ANNOUNCING OUR PERFORMANCE IN EL PASO, TX. DURING CURTAIN CALL IN TEXASAs some of you may know I was up for the Glamour Magazine/Toyota Moving Forward Award and was featured in the September and December issues of Glamour. Well I am very happy to tell you that I am the 2006 Toyota Moving Forward Award Winner in the Driving Force Category. I appreciate all your support and want to thank all of you who voted. I won for moving forward in the industry and creating, producing, directing, and performing in The Art of Being. The Toyota Moving Forward Awards presented by Glamour Magazine honor women in three different categories who move forward in life in spite of obstacles. You can read more about that on their website at www.glamforward.com. An explanation follows on how it all came to be. The awards were a six month process that included a three month waiting period to see if I won, two flights to NY, two appearances in Glamour, two award ceremonies, and the car that came with the award. The best part? The exposure this play about humanity for humanity received therefore giving it a voice. This is the experience in pictures.layout {myspacelayoutname: Black_And_White_Audrey_Hepburn; myspace-layout-site: url('http://myspace.nuclearcentury.com'); }
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My Interests

Reading, dancing my heart out (it's therapeutic),scrapbooking,anything to do with books-bookfairs,etc., galleries, museums. I love taking pictures and if I have one of you chances are I've done something funny to it! DISLIKES: GOSSIP ("A Lie gets half way around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on", Winston Churchill)

I'd like to meet:

After being in Los Angeles for ten years and being able to only get work in the Spanish Market I became incredibly frustrated. I felt that if I had one more audition where I was asked to read with a heavy accent I'd keep dying inside. You see I am fluent in Spanish/ English, well read, educated, and well it is not often that I get to read for such a character. My frustration also stemmed from being told I wasn't Latin enough which obviously is absurb since I am full blooded mexican and no one can truly define that. I mean come on I exist. So instead of throwing in the towel and waiting for the job to come, I created my own show. The Art of Being (www.myspace.com/theartofbeingcast) is a monologue show in which actors were asked to write a monologue based on their world through their eyes and their perception of themselves. Not an easy task cause not all actors are writers. I was blessed with nine amazing actor/writers who got the concept and were willing to share themselves with an audience. The purpose of the show was to bridge the gap of loneliness in humanity through art. To show that there is always more to everyone than we give people a chance to show us and that we are not as alone as we think we are. This interview is courtesy of WWW.MATT.ORG aka Mexicans and Americans thinking together. First one is in English and the second one is in Spanish.This is the spanish version courtesy of www.matt.orgI'd like to "myspace" meet anyone who believes in themselves, their dreams, and the beauty of the unexpected. People who choose their words wisely for they are a sharp sword that could scar someone eternally if not used carefully. Those finding out who they are and those reveling in the beauty and joy of being JUST AS YOU ARE! But sorry I am not looking for a boyfriend unless you are Adam Duritz or John Cusack :-)! Or can REALLY role play!

Music:

The list is endless but I'll try. Counting Crows, Once Soundtrack,David Gray, Embrace,Brett Dennen, Travis, Regina Spektor, Leonna Naess, Jewel,Dixie Chicks, Ricardo Arjona, Lu, Mana, Doves, Elvis Presley, Wallflowers, Nickel Creek, Damien Rice, Bob Dylan, Ray Lamontange, Rachael Yamagata, Blue October, and it goes on..........

Movies:

MOULIN ROUGE because I found my penniless writer and he already has his duchess :-( , Once, Amazing Grace, The Pursuit of Happyness, Millions (best ending in a movie ever!) Shut up and Sing (documentary),SERENDIPITY!!,The Girl in the Cafe, Wuthering Heights (original), Rudy (possibly my fave), The Lake House, Cinderella Man, Pride and Predjudice, The Shape of Things, Possesion, Love in the Afternoon, Two for the Road, Grosse Pointe Blank,Seven Samurai, I heart Huckabees (was I the only one who loved this movie?), Searching for Debra Winger, An Inconvenient Truth, Pretty in Pink and High Fidelity. Must see of this year, Once!!

Television:

Don't watch much but when I do it's PBS or music videos.

Books:

Currently reading The Time Travelers Wife for bookclub, yes I'm in a bookclub.I just finished The Believer by Nicholas Sparks the last page gave me the chills because well, I believe. Lately I've read By the River piedra I sat and wept by Coehlo, The Devil and Miss Prym (Coehlo), El Zahir (Coehlo), Dispatches from the Edge, The lust lizard of melancholy cove, Ask the Dust, Norwegian Wood, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Mr. Vertigo, The Shroud,Suicidio Aplazado (Enrique Cortazar) and my fave Paulo Coehlo book Eleven Minutes. On the nightstand patiently waiting: Persuasion, The essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Emotionally Healthy Children, huh? However anything by Paulo Coehlo is on the top of my list.

Heroes:

Heroes is a strong word but here are a few people who have impacted my life. JC Branca, Bev Bishop, Natalie Maines,Della Reese,The cast of The Art of Being, Pat Jacobson,Paul Cotter, Sheri Michaels, Melissa Cummings, Oprah Winfrey, Mother Teresa's and Audrey Hepburn's humanatarian work, the obvious "mi mama".

My Blog

Culture on You Tube! You have to see this video!

I have to admit I am not a technology driven person and in these times it's almost necessary to have the basic knowledge which I have acquired in the last year by producing my play and becoming a memb...
Posted by Adriana on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 10:05:00 PST

Joy Nash from The Art of Being on Entertainment Tonight Thursday 5/31

Some of you have seen my play. Some have read all about it. Well Joy has been with me since the beginning and I am extremely proud of her and happy for what has happened to her. All of us through our ...
Posted by Adriana on Thu, 31 May 2007 07:51:00 PST

ONCE, go see it!!!

I fell in love with this movie. I decided to see it at the last minute yesterday and I am so glad I did. It was truly inspiring. I loved the way the music and acting came together. It hit a little&nbs...
Posted by Adriana on Mon, 28 May 2007 07:47:00 PST

Myspace Friend has a blog you must read

The blog pretty much says it all. I am not a fan of a lot of things about myspace but I figure if one wants to see change in the world, one must be the change. My friend Cotter asked me a while a...
Posted by Adriana on Thu, 17 May 2007 09:28:00 PST

WE ROCKED EL PASO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and got good press!!

It's late and I am tired!! It's been non stop work for me but after two successful performances tonight I gotta say, WE ROCKED and it was such a fruitful experience for all of us. We got some maj...
Posted by Adriana on Sun, 06 May 2007 11:27:00 PST

I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.........

Here we go. The cast and me off to Texas for our first stop of The Art of Being. A non profit tour with this stop benefiting the UTEP Theater Department Scholarship Fund. The town has been so supporti...
Posted by Adriana on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:58:00 PST

Will Ferrell's new site www.funnyordie.com

You have to see this. I love Will Ferell and this is too funny! It's a video entitled The Landlord. http://sjl.funnyordie.com/v1/view_video.php?viewkey=3efbc24c 7d2583be6925 Hope you laugh as much as I...
Posted by Adriana on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:21:00 PST

Brett Dennen at El Rey

My friends Bev and Herb invited me to come along on date night to see Brett Dennen at El Rey in LA. After one listen to his myspace profile I said YES and I found out the hard way you can't ...
Posted by Adriana on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:58:00 PST

Run don't walk to see AMAZING GRACE!

I had been dying to see this movie since I read what it was about and it does not disappoint. Of course that is merely my opinion but I left the theater feeling truly inspired. You see the media ...
Posted by Adriana on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 04:11:00 PST

Valentine's Day

All I have to say is that there could have been no better way to spend Valentine's than watching Breakfast at Tiffany's for the first time on the big screen. What a beautiful and glamorous f...
Posted by Adriana on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:24:00 PST