LIZA COLÓN-ZAYAS

LIZA COLÓN-ZAYAS returns to Second Stage Theatre where she appeared in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Water by the Spoonful (HOLA award for Best Featured Actress) and Living Out (Lucille Lortel Award nomination).She has been a member of the LAByrinth Theater Company in New York City since 1992 and the Sundance Theater Ensemble 2012. She appeared in Stephen Adly Guirgis plays including In Arabia, We’d All Be Kings; Our Lady of 121st Street; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; and The Little Flower of East Orange, all directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman. Liza toured Europe with director Peter Sellars in Story of a Soldier and later in Othello as Emilia, opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman. She starred in Athol Fugard’s latest play Have You Seen Us? opposite Sam Waterston and received a Connecticut Critics Circle Nomination. Her solo show, Sistah Supreme, had a summerlong run at the First Hip-Hop Theater Festival, produced by world renowned performance artist Danny Hoch and directed/developed by playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis. Some screen credits include “Louie” (FX), “Hung” (HBO), “Dexter” (Showtime), “How to Make It in America” (HBO), “Nurse Jackie” (Showtime), “Taking Chance” (HBO), “House” (FOX), “Law and Order,” “Law and Order: SVU” (NBC).