NFAND Episode 10 - Paola Lázaro - writer, playwright, performer

Paola Lázaro is fierce. Here’s a young, talented and emerging wordsmith, in a very crowded landscape, standing as a unique voice.

Recent credits:

Selected by the Atlantic Theatre Company to be its Tow Playwright-in-Residence as part of the Tow Foundation’s 2016–17 playwright residency program.  She was part of the 2015 Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theater.

Received an Arts Entertainment Scholarship Award from the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts for the pilot episode of her TV show, Trópico.

Appeared in "To the Bone" at the Cherry Lane Theatre and received a 2015 Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress.

In May of this year, Paola participated in the Sundance Institute’s pilot Theatre Lab in MENA, held in Morocco.