Rivera: "I really just like learning. I’m constantly going down some rabbit hole of information about some trivial thing."

Rivera: "I’m fascinated by complicated people in general, but especially in the acting landscape. People who on the surface seem mean or despicable, but who have a wealth of baggage and trauma that have led them to become what they are."

Rivera: "I don’t know if this comes as a surprise to anyone, but I’m a pretty big nerd."

Rivera: "When I started applying for colleges, I decided to audition for some theatre programs as well and those ended up being the only programs to grant me a scholarship, so I ended up going that direction and I’ve gotten lucky with many blessings thereafter that led me here."

Rivera: "I just like learning about the building blocks of our world and figuring out why things are the way they are and work the way they do."

Rivera: "Roles like that are very exciting to me because they require me to ask myself a lot of existential questions about why I personally am the way I am vs. what could have happened to me in my life to lead me down a less amicable path or a path similar to whatever character I’m trying to portray."

Rivera: "My brain tends to be pretty fickle so I’m sure I’ll get fixated on something else pretty soon."

Rivera: "I had always really loved to sing when I was growing up. In high school, some friends of mine needed a singer for an act that they were doing for my school’s pop show, so I joined the act as their singer and that was my first time performing on a stage."

Rivera: "In my downtime, I really like to play video games."

Rivera: "I hope that this landscape creates fertile ground for the next generation of artists to create unique, nuanced subject matter told from the perspective of people from all backgrounds."

Rivera: "I play with a lot of hypotheticals as they pertain to where things could go from here, but I really don’t know."