Laura Gómez

Laura Gómez is an actress and writer best known for her role as Blanca Flores on Orange Is the New Black. She has been featured on television in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and the miniseries Show Me a Hero, and on film in Exposed, America Adrift, and Sambá, which had its world premiere at Tribeca in 2017. Gómez has directed three short films, The Iron Warehouse, Hallelujah, and To Kill a Roach, which won the NYU Technisphere Award in 2012. She is a member of Dorset Theater Festival’s “Women Artists Writing,” a creative collective giving voices to female theater artists.