La DANIELLA (she/her) is a performer, playwright, puppeteer and teaching artist falling back in love with herself. Her work has been supported by The Public Theater, Bushwick Starr, New York Theater Workshop, The New Group Offstage, Checkmark Productions, Barrington Stage Company and San Diego Repertory Theater. Her play Get Your Pink Hands Off Me Sucka and Give Me Back (FKA Columbus Play) won the 2020 Burman New Play Award and was a finalist for the 2022 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She's a member of The Public Theater’s 2018-19 Emerging Writers Group, was a staff writer on the upcoming narrative podcast FLIPPED! (produced by echoverse and Neal Baer) and acts as a story consultant on the upcoming one-man show, The Illio Snow Story (written and performed by rapper Civil). As an actress, she is best known for her role as Zirconia on Netflix’s Orange is the New Black. La Daniella is a graduate of Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program and NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama.