Ana Silva is a native of Portland, OR (the cool Portland), a graduate of AMDA LA/NY, iO Chicago, The Second City’s Conservatory and House Co. Programs, and a 2018 NBC Universal/The Second City’s Bob Curry Fellow. An ALTA Award winner for Outstanding Improviser in Chicago, Ana was in the Chicago UP Comedy cast of The Second City’s She the People, was an understudy for The Second City's National Touring Company, a writer and performer of the In-Diana: Web Series, and star of the web series Diagnosis: Boring. She was also runner-up for Best Stage Actor in Chicago in the Chicago Reader's Best Of 2021.

 

Select Theatre Credits

Sound of Music (The Marriott Theater), Mr.Burns: A Post-Electric Play (Theater Wit), Kentucky (The Gift Theatre), XY the Musical Staged Reading (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), In the Heights (Casa 0101/ Teatro Nuevos Horizontes), and Searching for Aztlán (Teatro Milagro). Ana is also an improviser with Matt Damon Improv (2017 Best Improv Team CWFF), Baby Wants Candy, Improvised Jane Austen, and Dynasty Improv.