Liza Colón-Zayas (born c. 1972) is an American actress and
playwright.Colón-Zayas was born and raised in The Bronx borough of
New York City, and began her career starring in Off-Broadway
productions. She broke into mainstream theatre when she wrote,
produced, and starred in a one-woman show titled Sistah Supreme, a
semi-autobiographical play in which she chronicles growing up as an
Latina woman in New York during the 1970s and 1980s.Colón-Zayas has
been a member of the LAByrinth Theatre Company, a New York-based
traveling actors' group, since 1992. On stage, she originated the role
of Norca in the off-Broadway productions of Our Lady of 121st Street
and appeared in In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings (co-starring Ana Ortiz
and directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman). Time Out New York named the
latter production one of the ten best plays of 1999.[citation
needed]She has also appeared in television series such as Sex and the
City, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Blue Bloods episode 124,
"Stomping Grounds" (in the latter, as Ana Baez, the sister of
Detective Maria Baez). She guest starred in Dexter (season 5, episodes
7 and 8), as a snitch to the detectives investigating the "Santa
Muerte killings".
playwright.Colón-Zayas was born and raised in The Bronx borough of
New York City, and began her career starring in Off-Broadway
productions. She broke into mainstream theatre when she wrote,
produced, and starred in a one-woman show titled Sistah Supreme, a
semi-autobiographical play in which she chronicles growing up as an
Latina woman in New York during the 1970s and 1980s.Colón-Zayas has
been a member of the LAByrinth Theatre Company, a New York-based
traveling actors' group, since 1992. On stage, she originated the role
of Norca in the off-Broadway productions of Our Lady of 121st Street
and appeared in In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings (co-starring Ana Ortiz
and directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman). Time Out New York named the
latter production one of the ten best plays of 1999.[citation
needed]She has also appeared in television series such as Sex and the
City, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Blue Bloods episode 124,
"Stomping Grounds" (in the latter, as Ana Baez, the sister of
Detective Maria Baez). She guest starred in Dexter (season 5, episodes
7 and 8), as a snitch to the detectives investigating the "Santa
Muerte killings".
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