Adlyn Carreras was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She came to Minnesota on scholarship to study at Macalester College, where she had a major in Latin American Studies with a core concentration in Literature and a minor in Biology. After living in Hawaii, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico, Adlyn returned to Minnesota and began acting in the Twin Cities. She has performed at The Jungle Theater, Park Square Theater, Pangea World Theater, Mixed Blood, Penumbra Theater, and Teatro del Pueblo. She has also been in various commercials and Industrial films.
Adlyn is Office Manager & Ensemble Member at Pangea World Theater, a Teaching Artist for the Neighborhood Bridges program at Children’s Theater Company, and she is one of the Monologue Artists for Penumbra Theater’s Race Workshop. She was recently hired to teach acting at Augsburg University and is currently working on her one-woman show, If My Bones Could Speak, commissioned by the Alternate Visions program at Pangea World Theater.