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Originally from Caracas, Venezuela, Veronica Osorio moved to New York City after spending her teen years clowning and acting in South America. Once in America, she joined the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, where she performed on house sketch teams with Kate McKinnon, Nicole Byer, and Natasha Rothwell, among others. In New York and Los Angeles, she has started and/or hosted all-Spanish and all-female shows, and co-hosted a Star Trek podcast, Treks and The City. Her screen credits include film roles working with the Coen Brothers in Hail, Caesar! and with Steven Soderbergh in The Laundromat. And she has two different stage babies: Medicine Woman, where she puts her certified healer work to test with live audiences at Fringe festivals from Hollywood to Edinburgh to Brighton to Adelaide; Cherry Baby: Lover Girl, a clown where she tries to find a spouse before the show is over. But as we caught up over Zoom, she’s also about to deliver a real-life baby. She shared her journey with me, talking about the dangers she faced in Venezuela, the difficulties in her path trying to find acceptance with her American comedy teammates, and how what’s happening now to her loved ones and other Venezuelan refugees in America, along with her impending motherhood, has impacted her work onstage. There’s a lot to get to, so let’s get to it!

Her show, Medicine Woman, returns for select dates June 10, June 22, and June 28 for the Hollywood Fringe. (read my review of her show from the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe) She’ll also perform Cherry Baby: Certified Lover Girl on June 26 at The Elysian in Los Angeles.

Here is a scene of hers from Hail, Caesar!

Or perhaps you’ve seen her in an ad for Sonic Drive-In:

Back in 2016, she co-starred with Julio Torres in a webseries, Diego y Valentina, for Mas Mejor, the Latino YouTube channel for Lorne Michaels and Broadway Video.

And before that, the 2012 UCB sketch that went viral for her, as she starred as Manic Pixie Prostitute:

Posing with her Treks in the City co-host, Alice Wetterlund; and the UCB flyer for her first one-hander, “First Woman On The Moon”

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