Jose Miguel Vargas Urrutia

I was born in the city of Santiago de Chile; from a very young age I began to show my interest in the performing arts. I grew up in a reserved family where nobody expected me to be an artist and despite all the difficulties, opportunities began to come my way.

 

In 2012, I had the opportunity to audition for the famous Chilean director and show woman called Maiten Montenegro (Univision TV-Miami), with whom I worked on different shows and TV around Chile. The lights, the glitter, and the magic propelled me in 2016 to audition for the renowned Tony Award winner Baayork Lee, who was producing “A Chorus Line” in Chile. After an extensive and hard audition process, I was finally selected to be part of the cast.

 

At that moment my life changed, and I made the decision, with the help of Baayork, to move to New York City. This is when I decided to study musical theater at the acclaimed American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA), where I had the opportunity to train and grow as a performing artist.

 

After my graduation, I have had the opportunity to work in different musical theater productions and Netflix. There are many shows including Cats, Cabaret, A Chorus Line, Cinderella, awards, and TV that I have in my portfolio, but if I could summarize my work, I would say that it has been the work of life itself.