Melissa Navia

'Melissa Navia' (qv) is a Colombian-American actor, writer, and stand-up comedian with a fiercely innate penchant for short hair. She plays the banjo and is trained in martial arts. Her extensive on-camera body of work has afforded her the opportunity to play a myriad of singular characters, including roles on Billions (Showtime), where she played an astronaut bound for a life on Mars, and Dietland (AMC), where she played a vigilante on a mission of retribution for crimes against women. Navia is always looking for new ways to tell underrepresented stories that demand attention and challenge audience perceptions. She is the creator of Girl With Short Hair, an essay collection and one-woman show about a Latinx girl and her adventures spent thwarting categorization and challenging society's fixation on boxing people in to avoid figuring them out.::Brian Bannon