Paola Lázaro is an actress and playwright born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her play, Tell Hector I Miss Him, will receive its world premiere at the Atlantic Theater Company in January 2017. In 2015 she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play in To The Bone at Cherry Lane Theatre. She was awarded the Arts Entertainment Scholarship Award from NHFA, a member of the Public Theater's 2015 Emerging Writers Group, was selected Playwright-in-Residence for the Sundance Theater Lab in Morocco 2016, and is currently the Tow Foundation’s Playwright-in-Residence at the Atlantic Theater Company. She holds a BFA.\ in Dramatic Writing from SUNY Purchase College, MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University. She recently wrapped a role in the feature film Pimp.