Samora la Perdida (she/they) is a trans trilingual creator and performer. She is a 2024 Princess Grace Award winner and YoungArts Fellow. In February 2025, she will be the featured artist of the PLAYBILL Songwriter Series. Her TEDxTalk, Do Latines Need to Speak Spanish? Finding Your Lost Mother Tongue, features music from her upcoming bilingual brujería musical: SPANGLISH SH!T. SPANGLISH SH!T has been developed with support from Baryshnikov Arts Center, Berkeley Rep, NYSCA and En Garde Arts. Her queer Spanglish rap opera, pato, pato, maricón, debuted at Ars Nova’s ANT FEST and its tour of public schools was featured on BRIC TV. She has starred in the Off-Broadway productions of Quiara Alegría Hudes’ My Broken Language at Signature Theatre, David Mendizábal’s Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members at Soho Rep, as well as Tina Landau’s A Transparent Musical at the Mark Taper Forum. Upcoming work includes Tina Romero’s zom com horror film Queens of the Dead. 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.
