Tiara Luten
Virginia Newcomb is a performer and artist known for her acclaimed turn in A24’s The Death of Dick Long (Sundance) from Daniel Scheinert of Oscar record breakers, Daniels. Other notable films includes The Beta Test (Berlinale/Tribeca) opposite Jim Cummings, Peacock with Cillian Murphy, Union, Reparation, Don’t Die, and producing for Lynn Shelton’s Sword of Trust (SXSW). She contributes regularly to arts education and advocacy, partnering with organizations like; Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Alys Stephens Center, Girls Rock, ACLU, and performing alongside punk protest collective, Pussy Riot for a Planned Parenthood benefit.
Virginia's influences hail from a vast theatre background and the boundary-breaking, medium mashup kind inspire much of her own creative work. Her NYC debut came in Jay Scheib's live-cinema production of Chekhov's Platonov, live streamed to Time Square and BAM Rose Cinemas. Virginia took a similar, and more intensely immersive approach, as creator of Cucalorus Festival’s commissioned Blue Velvet installation, Bus to Lumberton, playing gender bent versions of Lynch’s iconic characters. She performed in Julian Rosefeldt's epic video installation project, Euphoria with Cate Blanchett, commissioned by Park Avenue Armory. Whether adding dynamic movement to the screen or intimate nuance to theatre, Virginia thrives in commingling these worlds. She will return to the LA stage in spring ‘25 for the west coast premiere of Alabaster; a tale of healing, art, and the resilience of women, serendipitously set in her hometown.
Though a true indie film and alt theater kid, Virginia can also be seen in popular shows, The Walking Dead, The Office, Halt & Catch Fire, Law & Order, and From Scratch opposite Zoe Saldana. She has collaborated on dozens of award-winning short films such as, Three Fingers (Raindance), The Recycling Man (Leeds), and the Appalachian eco-body horror, Occupational Hazard, on Hulu. Most recently the Belgian sci-fi, Wasteland with Jan Bijvoet, was awarded Best Performances at Blue Planet Film Festival in China. Virginia was selected to participate in the inaugural Constellation Incubator, formed to apply design thinking to reimagine and scale a more sustainable, equitable filmmaking ecosystem. A native Alabamian, much of her work explores the deeper nuance in nontraditional southern female narratives. Projects in development include psi-fi fairytale, Falling Home and Stolen Daffodils, a personal tragi-folly on loss.