CO-FOUNDER/CREATIVE PRODUCER

Anabel Romero (she/they) is a first-generation Colombian-American creative producer and storyteller, inspired by immersive theatre, installation art, opera, creative technology, and environmental justice. Through her work, processes, and collaborations, Anabel seeks to co-create a more thoughtful, humanizing, and socially conscious collective future.

Before founding FURIOSA, Anabel was the Creative Producer and Content Manager at Miami New Drama, the largest bilingual theatre in the country dedicated to producing groundbreaking work. Anabel has graduated with an MFA in Theatre Management and Producing from Columbia University, where they creatively produced a variety of multimedia works, including co-producing PLAYSONOS, the first-ever digital audio play festival featuring work by playwrights in the Oscar Hammerstein Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, with world-renowned playwright and faculty lead, David Henry Hwang. She has also worked with arts organizations such as LA Opera, The Industry LA, Urban Voices Project, and Beth Morrison Projects in production, community engagement, development, and administrative consulting. Anabel holds a BFA in Voice Arts from the California Institute of the Arts.

Anabel has been named a Columbia Alumni Association Scholar, granted to students who demonstrate academic engagement and leadership within their school and across the University. They are also the recipient of the Columbia University Presidential Fellowship, the Cody Renard Richard Scholarship, and one of the Seller Lehrer Producing Scholars, dedicated to honoring, uplifting, and supporting the next generation of Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and People of Color theatre-makers working behind the scenes.

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