Kelvin Grullon

Actor: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Company Manager

Kelvin is a Dominican American actor from Washington Heights, New York City. An architecture graduate from the University of Virginia (2013), he launched his acting career with Literature to Life’s one-person play The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, 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, director, filmmaker, producer, spoken word performer, and as a DJ under the pseudonym CHICO BEMBÉ. He has starred on numerous independent projects in theater (Queen of Basel, King Lear, She Hates Coffee, Room28 Comedy), film (La Tierra, No More Lonely People), voice over (Corner Wolves), and new media works (Guap, DominicanYork). His Director credits include the adaptation and directron of Literature to Life’s The Great Gatsby, as well as Assistant Director on King James. He received his actor training with acting troupe Humanity Studios under the guidance of acting coach Shae D'lyn (Dharma & Greg), and courses at Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts. He loves taking on tragic hero roles – the confident fool with a heart of gold that often finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.

From Kelvin:

“Doing a Lit to Life performance is akin to taking a sip of magic, if magic could be captured in liquid form. Beyond being a beautiful and ever-changing process of growth for any actor, demanding one to become fully attuned with every inch of their acting instrument, the reception from students about what they have just been a part of is the most heartwarming part of the performance.

When you bring to life someone’s favorite character, or better yet a character they’ve never seen but can palpably relate to, and they get to see them, and breathe with them, and weep with them, the words take on new meaning and quality. People always ask ‘how do you remember all those words?’ and I always say ‘I have no idea. It just pours out’.”