Born to Colombian parents in Southern California, Giselle was raised in a family of artists and at a young age began to take dance lessons. She spent her childhood and adolescence dancing and performing at The Dodger's Stadium, KLOS's Mark and Brian Thanksgiving Parade, The Anaheim Pond and The L.A. Coliseum.In her senior year of high school, Giselle was named a Top Ten Dancer with Dance USA. She went on to play with choreography, costuming and photography and taught ballet, lyrical and jazz dance to kids. She was part of the educational touring dance company based out of Orange Coast College called Danc'n Etc where they performed at various high schools to educate students on social justice issues. After attending college at various campuses she graduated from California State University, Fullerton where she earned a BA in Communications with an emphasis on Entertainment Studies and minored in Comparative Religion.The summer after graduating from college she traveled to Costa Rica to aide in environmental conservation. When she returned home she soon married artist Kevin Muñoz and they had a child before moving to Austin, Texas. After many years of being a stay-at-home mother, she was invited to attend the Tom Todoroff Acting Conservatory in New York City. After two years of living an almost unreal double life she returned home to her family in Austin to begin her work as a theatre actor and dabble in film producing.Giselle is Co-Director of Austin Arthouse Film Festival - spotlighting work from filmmakers across the world who defy conventions and tropes, who champion art over mass appeal and whose work challenges audience expectation. Celebrating the work of artists by sharing their films in a city that embraces and triumphs originality, creativity and the strange. After going virtual for the past two years due to the pandemic, the fest had a name change to The Arthouse Film Festival and is slated to have pop up screening in Los Angeles and New York City.Some notable collaborations have been with Ground Floor Theatre, Theatre En Bloc, Performance Platform Austin, ScriptWorks, Marfa Live Arts. Giselle has appeared in numerous commercials, she was part of the inaugural board at WIFT Austin as the Community Partnership CoChair and screens films for festivals including Austin Film Festival and SXSW.
