Draft:Evelyn Lorena

Evelyn Lorena is an American actress, writer, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles.

Early life
Lorena grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina. She was interested in performance from a young age, but didn't decide to pursue it as a career until high school. She attended NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Career
In the 2010s, Lorena was a member of the Los Angeles-based theatre company CASA 0101. In 2013, she began raising funds to produce a webseries, titled Crash Dance.

Also in the early 2010s, Lorena allowed former classmate Samantha Colicchio to adapt a one-act play she had written into a short film, titled For Her.

In 2021, Lorena received a Latinx Inclusion Fellowship from the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF) and Netflix. She used her $20,000 in grant money to finance the production of her short film, Gabriela.

In 2022, Gabriela premiered at LALIFF. The film marked Lorena's first project as a director.

Personal life
Lorena is of indigenous Guatemalan descent.