Vivian's first professional acting job in NYC was understudying on Broadway at Roundabout Theater. She has gone on to appear on hit TV shows Breaking Bad, Longmire, The Night Shift, Manhattan, Law & Order: SVU, and The Messengers. Her original short film Leverage was an official selection of Taos Shortz and NMWIF Film Fiesta garnering her an award for Best Performance. She has performed her original solo play The Bark & The Tree at Off-Broadway’s prestigious United Solo Festival where she won two awards for her work on Theatre Row in NYC and the Los Angeles Women’s Theater Festival.
She holds an MFA in Acting and has continued her studies with luminaries such as Anna Deavere Smith and Alan Arkin.
Vivian is currently on tour with Si Kahn's Mother Jones In Heaven ~ a musical one-woman show about the legendary labor organizer Mary Harris "Mother" Jones. Public Radio Fan? You may recognize her voice as the co-host of the nationally syndicated public radio program Art of the Song Creativity Radio with her husband John Dillon.
Little known fact? She's third generation actress. Her great aunt Cathleen played Mrs. Higgins in the Broadway premiere of My Fair Lady and Cary Grant's mother in An Affair to Remember!
She holds an MFA in Acting and has continued her studies with luminaries such as Anna Deavere Smith and Alan Arkin.
Vivian is currently on tour with Si Kahn's Mother Jones In Heaven ~ a musical one-woman show about the legendary labor organizer Mary Harris "Mother" Jones. Public Radio Fan? You may recognize her voice as the co-host of the nationally syndicated public radio program Art of the Song Creativity Radio with her husband John Dillon.
Little known fact? She's third generation actress. Her great aunt Cathleen played Mrs. Higgins in the Broadway premiere of My Fair Lady and Cary Grant's mother in An Affair to Remember!