Samora la Perdida

2024 Princess Grace Award
Nominated by: David Mendizábal, Princess Grace Award winner (Theater 2021)

John Gore Theater Honor

Samora la Perdida (she/they) is a trilingual creator and performer. She starred in the 2022 Off-Broadway productions of Soho Rep’s Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members, Quiara Alegría Hudes’ My Broken Language at Signature Theatre, as well as Tina Landau’s A Transparent Musical at the Mark Taper Forum in 2023. Her TEDxTalk, Do Latines Need to Speak Spanish? Finding Your Lost Mother Tongue, features spoken word and music from her upcoming bilingual brujería musical: Spanglish Sh!t. Spanglish Sh!t has been developed with Berkeley Rep, NYSCA, Baryshnikov Arts Center and En Garde Arts. Her queer Spanglish rap opera, pato, pato, maricón, debuted at Ars Nova ANT FEST in 2018. Its public school tour was documented in the BRIC TV series Going in With Brian Vines. la Perdida graduated from LaGuardia HS as a YoungArts Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and from Carnegie Mellon University with a dual degree in Drama and Global Studies.