About Eva García Luna
Eva Griseida Garcia Luna is a Mexican actress, singer and dancer, born on May 22nd 1986 in Durango, Mexico. She grew up in the small city of Valle de Santiago, Gto. Town that inspired her to write the single, "De Aquí Vengo, De Aquí Soy". In 2009 she graduated from "Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey" obtaining her bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences and studied Acting at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute the 2 years conservatory program from 2010 to 2012.Since she was a young girl she earned the spotlight in acting, singing and dancing, starting with school plays and activities in kindergarten and elementary school, where she won a poetic declamation contest. She even earned the award for the best in poem performance in all of the city schools in Valle de Santiago, Gto. Reason why she was often invited by the city mayor to make a stand in the festivities. Starting high school, Eva started performing public speech, taking the first place during the first year in the State of Guanajuato. Ever since then, she was a natural, her father always helped her getting involved in politics to make her speak before crowds, welcoming important politicians. One of the most important events she hosted was one made for the politic party leader Cuauhtemoc Cárdenas, at age 10. When she was 14, her parents decided to move to Durango, where she started her third year of middle school. Eva García kept going onto poetry contests, but this time she chose composition, in which she made school first place as well.But it wasn't until some friends invited her to participate in a play that she started on acting, just to keep on going with Theatre workshop, with professor Victor Hugo Galván, current Director of broadcasting in Culture Institute of the State of Durango (ICED), with whom she played role in various plays such as: "El instituto Ecuménico", "Tommy", "Romeo y Julieta" among others, all of these in one of the most important theatres in the city of Durango: Teatro Victoria.The most successful and Eva's personal favorite among the mentioned above was "El instituto Ecuménico", where she starred as a very interesting character, named "chatarra" (junk). In García Luna's words: "El Instituto Ecuménico is a play about all those charity organizations, that are supposed to exist to help the ones in need, but instead, they use it to get donations by using people in need to cause pity. It's a very interesting and controversial topic."During high school, she gets involved on dancing workshops such as jazz and hip-hop.At age 18 she moved to Monterrey to study Communication Sciences at Tecnologico de Monterrey, in order to get a full perspective about the behind-the-camera business and complement her actress career. While she was at it, she continued on theatre workshops, performing in plays like "Cada cosa en su lugar" and she did her first Short Film "Thanks Covey" directed by Manuel Anguiano, during semester breaks, she took some courses at her hometown "House of Culture" where she acted on plays such as "Los cuervos están de luto". This was at the same age when she started studying and practicing Belly Dance, discipline she would perform for the next years, participating in shows in Monterrey, Mexico City and Durango.With the purpose of finding a good, professional acting school, at age 19, she learned English in England at Manchester University throughout a semester's period.She went back to Monterrey, where she ...