2nd Year John Wells MFA Directing Fellow
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Crochet Artist
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Financial Writer & Founder of Girls That Invest
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5th Year Drama & Global Studies Major
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Assistant Professor of Psychology
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"Samora la Perdida (they/she) is a trilingual performer, poet, and creator. Their works range from musicals to spoken word pieces that utilize combinations of Spanish, English, and Portuguese to give voice to the beautifully complex realities of transgender and genderqueer Afro-Latines. Their Spanglish rap opera, pato, pato, maricón, premiered at Ars Nova’s ANT Fest in 2018. Their music video PAPI RUNS was an official selection of the 2019 National Film Festival for Talented Youth. This summer they will make their off-Broadway debut acting in Notes on Killing… at Soho Rep. They have also acted in various productions in Shakespeare in The Park, and have performed under the direction of Debbie Allen and Tarell Alvin McCraney. la Perdida graduated from LaGuardia High School as a YoungArts Presidential Scholar in the Arts. In 2018, they spent what they thought was their penultimate semester at CMU abroad in Bogotá, Colombia. There, they learned Spanish by studying performing arts at the University of Javeriana. They ended up traveling across South America for three years, fortifying their Spanish and picking up Portuguese along the way. This May they will finish their journey at CMU with degrees in Drama and Global Studies."