Age: 34
non-binary
A non-binary performer born and raised in Puerto Rico by actors Gerardo Ortiz and Evelyn Rosario, Vico Ortiz was influenced by the arts from the day they were born. The stage was their first love, followed by fencing in their pre-teens. Most of their teenage life was spent traveling the world representing Puerto Rico in the National Fencing Team as their saber fencer, including the Panamerican Games in Rio '07. Once High School was over, they packed their bags and moved to Los Angeles, CA to study at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. There, they rekindled the love for the performative arts and discovered their calling. Visibility. Their mission is to showcase diversity in the Latinx culture on Stage, TV and Film. They want young queers and people around the globe to see characters on screen that are relatable no matter their background, their sexual orientation or gender identity. They are excited to ride this wave of new content and can't wait to share it with the world.
Thirty-five-year-old Seattleite Sadie Wells needs an escape. She’s desperate to escape her monotonous routines, the family business that has consumed her entire life, and the unexpected gay panic that has her questioning everything she thought she knew about herself. So when her injured sister offers Sadie her place on a tour along Portugal’s Camino de Santiago, she decides this is the perfect chance to get away from it all. After three glasses of wine on the plane and some turbulence convince Sadie she won’t even survive the flight, she confesses all her secrets to her seatmate, Mal. The the plane doesn’t crash, and it turns out Mal is on her Camino tour. Worst of all, Sadie learns that she is on a tour specifically for queer women, and that her two-hundred-mile trek will be a journey of self-discovery, whether she wants it to be or not. Fascinated by the woman who drunkenly came out to her on the plane, Mal offers to help Sadie relive the queer adolescence she missed out on as they walk the Camino. As Sadie develops her newfound confidence, Mal grapples with a complicated loss and unexpected inheritance. But as their relationship blurs the lines between reality and practice, they both must decide if they will forever part at the end of the tour or chart a new course together.
