Desiree Marie Velez

Desiree Marie Velez is an American actress, producer and co-host born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. She relocated to Virginia to finish High School and College. She majored in Drama which she flourished at due to life experiences with a blue-collar family in N.Y which exposed her to all accents, cultures, toughness and humor. Her approach to acting is just an absorption of real people she's met, ones who influenced her, hurt her, loved her, her own achievements, failures and unduplicated moments that make up the layers of this onion and create her acting believability. Because acting classes can't teach life. One must live it and breath it into the characters she creates. She has survived dinner theatre, studied Shakespeare as well at the Folger in Washington, D.C. and in a Midsummer program in England. But her style and versatility and an ability to duplicate accents all came from New York. With a knack for Comedy she fell into a comic improve group which took part in the Comic Relie