Laura was born in Cali, Colombia, raised in South Florida, and resides 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, Sam Revaz, Isaiah Graham Hazzard, Julián Briones), she shares her original music all around NYC, hitting venues like The Sultan Room, Mercury Lounge, and Brooklyn Made. She makes all of her recorded 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 is a current Fall resident at the Woodward Residency.

She’s performed in original works 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) began her interest in philosophical space musicals, leading to her ‘Alien Triptych’ consisting of three distinct musicals on alien encounters. Her performances often make use of her multi-instrumentalism and her comfortable stage presence.

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.

Her innate desire to gather and connect has lead to two new communities she has the honor of leading, her soccer league and her film festival.