Samora la Perdida

Samora la Perdida (she/her) is a trans trilingual creator and performer. She is a Princess Grace Award winner, YoungArts Fellow and the inaugural recipient of Baryshnikov Arts Center’s Artist Labs Residency. Her musicals, SPANGLISH SH!T and pato, pato, maricón, can be heard on PLAYBILL’s Songwriter Series as well as in her TEDxTALK: Do Latines Need to Speak Spanish? Her work has been developed and supported by Pocantico Center of the Arts, Berkeley Rep, The Watermill Center, New York State Council of the Arts, Antenna Cloud Farm, Baryshnikov Arts Center, and En Garde Arts. As a performer she has starred in Galas at Little Island, Quiara Alegría Hudes’ My Broken Language at Signature Theatre, Notes on Killing… at Soho Rep and Yale Rep, and A Transparent Musical at the Mark Taper Forum. On screen, she can be seen in Tina Romero’s Queens of the Dead. She graduated from LaGuardia HS as a Young Arts Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and Carnegie Mellon with a dual degree in Drama and Global Studies.