Laura was born in Cali, Colombia, grew up in South Florida, and now lives in Brooklyn. She graduated from NYU with a BFA in Drama in 2019. As a multi-hyphenated music and theatre artist, she works in the creation and performance of both mediums and is deeply interested in where they intersect.

With her band (Henry Trinder, Kai Ono, Isaiah Graham Hazzard, Julián Briones), she shares new music all over NYC (Sultan Room, Brooklyn Made, Baby’s All Right). In 2021, they released the energetic, alt-pop EP In Front Of Your TV. In 2022 came the intimate double-sider Amateurs. In 2023, her single Maybe In Time was picked up by Spotify editorials and various music publications.

She was an artist-in-residence for Ars Nova’s Makers Lab from 2020 to 2022, with whom she became a 2020 Van Lier Fellow. She has also held residencies with Woodward Residency, Barn Arts, and The New Vic.

She’s developed new works as a performer with Playwrights Horizons Downtown, The New Victory Theatre, Ars Nova, and The Brick to name a few. Her one-woman-and-her-band show, Annie Aspen’s Musical Space Spectacular! (Ars Nova’s 2019 ANT Fest) sparked her interest in philosophizing space musicals, leading to an Alien Triptych; three distinct musicals on alien encounters. The latest, I Saw Them, premieres at Judson Church as part of Prism in June 2025. It is now in development as a feature film.

She is a teaching artist with a focus in songwriting and storytelling. She works with various organizations across all five boroughs, including Carnegie Hall, New York City Children’s Theatre, and The Possibility Project. She also teaches NYC history as an educator at the Tenement Museum.

Her instinct for gathering, creating, and imagining alternatives within social collapse led to a neighborhood soccer league and a DIY film festival.

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