Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi

Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi is a playwright, actress, author, and choreographer from Baltimore, Maryland.

Edidi is the first trans woman of color to be nominated for a Helen Hayes Award (2016). She was nominated in the categories of choreography, playwrighting, and acting.

In recognition of her activism within the Washington, DC Trans Community, Dane Figueroa Edidi received a 2015 Emerging Leader Award and was the GLBT History Project’s 2018 recipient of the Mujeres en el Movimiento Arts Award. She is a 2021 recipient of the Helen Merrill Award for playwriting.

Work

 * For Trans Black Girls …
 * Klytmnestra: An Epic Slam Poem