Lorena Santana is a multidisciplinary artist (performer, writer, director) who was born in México and raised in the United States. Currently, she is developing a full-length play and a middle-grade novel set along the Mexico/United States border.

She teaches poetry for California Poets in the Schools and is a Teaching Artist with La Jolla Playhouse and AECSD. Lorena also loves drinking a good cup of hot coffee, going surfing, baking, having “family time,” and tending to the Vermont homestead.

Original Plays: Un Grano de Maíz • Francine's Dream for Intrepid Theatre's Refugee Art Project • Our Children / Nuestros Hijos, featured at The Old Globe’s New Voices Festival

Director: Sour Grapes (Short Film), Barefoot in Baja (series) • Un Grano de Maíz • Francine's Dream • #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence • La Lucha (Assistant Director to David Reynoso)

*Proud member of Dramatist Guild and the Screen Actors Guild*