Julian Cividanes is an actor, writer, and expert at making third-person bios. The son of a Jamaican mother and a Puerto Rican father, Julian grew up in Washington, DC, before earning a BFA in Theatre from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA in Classical Acting from Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy. In addition to a love of genre cinema, from the laughs of Edgar Wright to the frights of Jordan Peele, his artistic worldview is a simple balance of education and entertainment - tell important stories, but always try to have some fun while doing so (and make sure the audience does too!).

Julian’s past credits feature numerous Shakespeare productions, including simultaneously playing Macduff and Sebastian in repertory performances of Macbeth and Twelfth Night (The Klein Theater) and playing Ophelio in the genderbent Princess Hamlet (The Flea Theater), as well as starring in original productions such as The Infidels (The Pasternak Theater) and the independent feature film Cat Video (currently in post-production). He has also written and starred in the short films Respawning… and This Won’t End Well For You, as well as the play The Waco Tapes (The Vino Theater), a two-hander thriller set during the Waco siege of 1993.

In November 2026, The Waco Tapes will be returning to the stage at The Tank, directed by Luke Wisniewski and once again starring Brason Jones and Julian Cividanes. For more information, including ticket purchases, click here: https://www.juliancividanes.com/the-waco-tapes

…oh, and it’s pronounced “siv-uh-daw-niss.”