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

With her band (Henry Trinder, Kai Ono, Isaiah Graham Hazzard, Julián Briones), she shares new music all over NYC (Sultan Room, Mercury Lounge, Brooklyn Made). She makes music with producer / engineer Greg Tock. 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 outer space musicals”, leading to her AlienTriptych consisting of three distinct musicals on alien encounters. The latest, I Saw Them, will premiere at Judson Church as part of Prism in June 2025.

She is a teaching artist with a focus in songwriting and storytelling. She works with various programs around the country, including Lovewell Institute for the Creative Arts, New York City Children’s Theatre, and Brooklyn Arts Council. She is an educator and costumed interpreter at the Tenement Museum.

Her instinct for gathering, creating, and re-creating within social collapse led to a local soccer league and a DIY film festival.

last update 4.23.25