Lora is an actor and singer based in New York City. Originally from Manila, Philippines, she moved to NYC when she received a scholarship to attend the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) for musical theatre. She eventually went to play her dream role since she was five years old, Kim in Miss Saigon at the beautiful Count Basie Theater in Red Bank, NJ, and again in Midtown Arts Center in Fort Collins, CO, for which she won a BroadwayWorld Denver Award for Best Actress. Her other favorite roles include Anita in West Side Story, Joanne in Rent, Lucy in You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Janet Van de Graaff in The Drowsy Chaperone, Christmas Eve in Avenue Q, and Meg in Little Women. She also originated the role of Hannah in Vital Theater's StinkyKids--Off Broadway Alliance Award Winner for Best Family Musical. She has worked and toured all over the U.S., and has worked alongside prominent names in the theater world such as Alex Timbers, David Byrne, Tony Winners Lea Salonga and Ruthie Anne Miles, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg. She has recently performed in two concerts in Tochigi and Tokyo, Japan. Currently also pursuing film, she is playing the lead in a new web series, Cocina de Soul. She is  an Equity Membership Candidate (EMC) and is eligible to join SAG-AFTRA.

 

She is a huge geek for the sci-fi and fantasy genres, and "casually cosplays" as often as her wardrobe will allow. (Follow her Instagram @dailycasualcosplays in      .) She enjoys cooking good food with great company, and can never turn down freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. She is very passionate about diversity in art and media, and her ultimate dream is to do a project that could get her as a guest speaker at a Comiccon panel in front of a room full of nerds, whom she considers her "peeps".