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Victoria Villier is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist and actor.

She is an avid performer and has been a creator since childhood. Victoria started by writing short stories to perform for her stuffed animals and redesigning her father's clothes to fit her body. Using her love of art to escape bullying, she turned her passion into a reality. Victoria was a high-performing student artist: she worked on a project every semester, was nominated twice for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Program, and served as an intern for CUNY Queensborough Community College Summer Theatre Program. In the program, she assisted high school students in actor training, instilling her passion within them. 

In 2021, she starred in Annalise Lockhart’s short film INHERITANCE, an official selection of the Atlanta Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival, and RiverRun International Film Festival. Victoria received Best Actress for the International Short Film Competition for Inheritance from the Fantasia Film Festival.

For an actor early in her career, Victoria has received critical praise for her work in Mike Gorman's Chasing the White Whale, which premiered at La Mama, and for Gethsemane Herron Coward's play Blanks, which premiered at Signature Theatre (Ford Studio). 

She was part of The Commissary, an artistic-collective-in-residence at The Vineyard, for the 2020-2021 season. The title of the ongoing residence is Lessons in Survival. The Commissary, a multigenerational collective of more than 40 ​theatre artists, has come together to reinvestigate the words​ ​of trailblazing artists​ ​and activists ​who survived and created in times of revolution in our country​. 

“She is fearless in her exploration, generous with her creativity, meticulous in her technique, and artful in her storytelling.” - Director and La MaMa member Arthur Adair