We recently connected with Aldo Uribe and have shared our conversation below.

Aldo, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Can you talk to us about how you learned to do what you do?

I think the journey of an actor is so open ended that you can never really say I did it, I’m done or definitively I know how to do this. I mean, what is “IT” any way? I started pursuing acting early on because it felt like this mystical process of searching and creating. It seemed interesting, fun and so foreign.

I come from a hard-working, blue collar, immigrant family, so I’ve always been very driven to try my best at the things I’m passionate about. I tend to go all in. At the beginning, it was very hard headed and brut. Moving to New York I knew the answer was somewhere out there but at first it was very much banging my head against the wall to try to find the answer.

I was in my first semester of college, studying theatre and I knew that there was more out there to learn outside of those walls so the long story short that’s what led me to the theatres downtown. That’s where the journey really begins for me. I was suddenly surrounded by incredible artists I looked up to and could ask questions, straight from the source. I thought the answer was around the corner, problem solved. The response I kept getting was DO THE WORK. I hated that answer. It felt so vague and almost rude but looking back after so many years I finally get it.

The answer for me is in the journey. The work is to endlessly search, spend the time getting your hands dirty and putting in the hours necessary to constantly be in a place of discovery. I think If you’re doing that, in no matter what you are persuing, there is no wrong answer. It is part of the journey to fall, fail, grow, find moments of success, fall, fail again, fall some more, finding little bits of treasure within the love and pain of it all.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

Well, um hi, hello nice to meet you. My name is Aldo Uribe and I am an actor who loves to work on stage, screen and everything in between. I ‘ve been very fortunate to pursue my dreams and that’s led me to be able to branch out and be creative in a lot of different ways. I am currently a creative producer on a feature film that I have been developing, I have worked on small stages, Broadway and national tours as a fight director and I’m in post production for a short film that I wrote/directed/produced and starred in. I love being able to create a dialogue through my natural desire to see and feel representation not only for myself for everyone who needs a voice.

I am very proud to be a first generation American as a son of Mexican immigrants. I think that juxstaposition of a journey of struggle and moments of priviledge encapsulates my journey as an artist. Being the first generation born in America in my family, a creative process or a focus on anything artistic wasn’t really first on the agenda but being an actor created a healthy rebelliousness and carried my version of a sort of punk rock American Dream kind of attitude. I had seen my father break his back, working long hours and getting his hands dirty that to work a little bit more with my mind and soul seemed intriguing and somehow intuitive to me. I had enough foresight to know that to solely follow in those same footsteps would lead to a very one dimensional verson of myself and acting seemed like, if nothing else, a good path to discovering more about myself.

I think all of that sort of sums up what I enjoy bringing to the table. Hard work, a constant element of discovery and a feeling of support that feels like family. Life is so crazy that what I want most is to bring an energy of hope and positivity. That doesn’t cost me anything so I try my best to give it where I can.

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

It feels like a message that we are constantly hearing but representation truly matters. For me, as much as we hear about this I still don’t see an honest effort to uplift and support communities or voices that are under represented. My desire as a creative is to genuinely bridge that gap and inspire people in their every day lives. Nothing makes me more proud as an actor than when my family in Mexico sees me on TV or Film. They, like most people, live day to day working hard just to provide. That grind is taxing. It goes without saying that it takes a toll on you to have the discipline to do the things you don’t really want to to do just to survive, so if I can provide a little bit of relief and inspiration by pursing my dreams, that is when I know I am surving my purpose.

Have you ever had to pivot?

I think the hardest lesson as a creative I’ve had to learn is that the path isn’t as linear as it seemed on the outside. I’ve always had to supplement my artistic career in many ways but one of the most fruitful parts of my journey so far was the choice to leave New York City after so many years of believing that that is where I needed to be in order to thrive creatively. We were all hit hard by the pandemic and life was changing quickly for my wife and I and I started having this strong intuition to head back home to Texas. I was terrified but I’ve learned to listen when fear is running that high. It usually leads you to a new place.

I spent 14 years living in New York and I had accomplished just about everything I had set out to do. Why give up on that now? I was scared that if I left a major hub like New York or LA I would somehow self impose a layer of distance that wasn’t going to be helpful in an already extremely difficult journey. Having to give in to my intution and take that leap of faith was such a great lesson. I think it becomes easy to hide in what is comfortable and that same comfort is what is limiting a new level of growth that could be around the corner.

That 1,823 mile drive was cathartic to say the least. Waking up to a new sunrise after what felt like a lifetime away was suprisingly intense. It’s forced me to buckle down and create new paths that I wouldn’t have taken otherwise. The growth I’ve experienced in these past 3 years in Texas is exactly what I needed to continue to become the artist I’ve always strived to be. I’ve had to take on more roles. Fatherhood and supporting my family’s business have embedded in me a new threshold that I know is fueling the next chapter as a creative.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.aldouribe.com
• Instagram: @au2.0