LAIA COMAS

Eulàlia Xavier Comas (she/they/ella) is a director, writer, composer, and teaching artist who also does some other things. From 2019 to 2022, Laia was the Artistic Director of her performance project called “The Angry Otter Project” which engaged youth active in the arts in central Pennsylvania through a horizontal, peer-to-peer support and collaborative growth model. Starting this year, she is beginning a new project called “Home for a Swarm of Bees” that explores methods of spatial dramaturgy, performance curation, and compassionate, spiritual approaches to collaborative art-making. They have previously appeared as an actor on stage at The Wooster Group’s Performing Garage (Manhattan, 2019), The Brick Theater (Williamsburg, 2019), and Wesleyan Center for the Arts (Middletown, 2020); have directed several plays including Life (Charles Mee, STC 2018), God’s Ear (Jenny Schwartz, Second Stage 2019), Stupid F***ing Bird (Aaron Posner, AOP 2020), Things are Afoot (Devised, AOP 2020), and The Book of Chrysanthemum (Laia Comas, AOP 2022); and have published writings in The Dillydoun Review, The Lavender, and at the Eleventh International Conference for Food Studies.

As a composer, she had a sound piece at La Mama Galleria as part of a limited run group exhibition with The Fool Volk in August, 2022. In addition, she was nominated for Best Original Music at QIFF for the short film “A Month Apart” (Reformat Studios, 2020), and her debut soundtrack album is out this year for the film “Understory” (Reformat Studios, 2022). She is currently developing a few new plays and is excited to be joining the team at Girl Be Heard as an after school Teaching Artist. She received her B.A. in Religion from Wesleyan University, where she was heavily involved in student theater and ran an illegal weekly pop-up restaurant. In addition to making live art, Laia also likes to cook, play with her cat Auggie, stop her cat Auggie from knocking things over, and making up imaginary worlds, maps, cities, languages, and mythologies. Explore more of Laia’s work at her website: laiaxc.com