Paola Lazaro (born October 24, 1994 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a playwright and television and film actress, best recognized for portraying Gutierrez on the series Lethal Weapon and as Juanita Sanchez on The Walking Dead. She has also starred in the film Black Bear.
She holds a BFA in Dramatic Writing from SUNY Purchase College and an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University. Following her graduation, she has written several plays including Tell Hector I Miss Him and There's Always the Hudson.
Paola is the recipient of the Arts Entertainment Scholarship Award (2011) from the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts for her TV pilot episode of “Trópico”. She was Atlantic Theater Company’s 2016/2017 Tow Playwright-in-Residence, supported by The Tow Foundation. She was also a member of the Public Theater’s 2015 Emerging Writers Group and was selected as Playwright-in-Residence for the 2016 Sundance Theatre Lab in Morocco.
In 2015, Paola was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her role in TO THE BONE at the Cherry Lane Theatre. She appeared alongside Frankie Shaw in the series SMILF.
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