ABOUT ME
Bettina grew up in Bogota, Colombia.
In her school years she went to a bilingual American school in Colombia, Colegio Nueva Granada, where she became fluent in english.
Since high school she was chosen to play ‘Tinker bell’ in Peter Pan and ‘The Parrot’ in Aladdin in which, for both characters, she was tied to dance and do aerobics in the air. This allowed her to explore her interest in drama and musical theatre.
She flew to Milan to study Fashion Modern Interior Design at Istituto Marangoni, where she, in two years, became fluent in italian. She also lived in Paris for four months where she learned french, her fourth language.
Her eye for Interior Design was what led her to complete and graduate from architecture in Bogota in ‘Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano’.
Her traveling in Europe, exploring the cities, museums, art exhibitions, performances built her interest on subjectivity and creative work.
There was still a missing piece to all of this. Bettina thought the exterior built her up, but she knew internally she hadn’t found herself. Considering there were no theatrical traditionalisms as ingrained in Colombia as there is in the United States, she de decided to do some workshops in Bogota to then study abroad in The Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre.
“I wanted to become an actress to create awareness, an artist to construct a vision for society, a human to create empathy and help a social cause.”
She worked as a model by involving herself in creative collaborations where her interest were mostly getting to understand the artists visions. She learned how to work behind a camera, how to get confident with it, about production, lighting, makeup and others.
Once convinced she wanted to study acting she entered a summer course in ‘Academia Charlot’. Also took courses with Victoria Hernandez, studied Clown, character work, Shakespeare monologues. Her teacher Juan Pablo Felix first introduced her to the Meisner technique which took her to then apply to The Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre, where she got accepted.
In 2018 she moved to New York and has been studying full time since then.
“ I understood that both architecture and acting involve the human factor within the scale, its figure, it’s necessities, how it grows considering its context, the people, the circumstances, the behavior. They both care to make the scenery so complete that you involve light, color, shadows, scenography, details, objects and the human figure.”