
Lorena Russi
Acting
Known For

The greatest thinkers/comedians of our time ask the questions no one else will.
Smartypants

A comedic unscripted web series hosted by Catherine McCafferty in which she goes on "first dates" with other queer comics, Pretty Gay gives audiences a glimpse into what flirting could be like if it happened on a set designed to look like a gay bar.
Pretty Gay

An angry Latinx dyke in her twenties wants to make the world a better place, but can barely keep her own life together. Fernanda and her friends deconstruct their lives, fuck them up, and then continue to deconstruct them.
Fernanda

Queer culture and the arts would be much poorer without the presence and contribution of butch and stud lesbians, whose identity is both its own aesthetic and a defiant repudiation of the male gaze.
The Renegades

Millie and Hope are two spoiled immigrants who try to make it in Hollywood but, when their destinies and visas are held hostage by La Migra, they decide to make ends meet and take a cash-paid job on a Marijuana farm in Northern California.
Blessed and Highly Favored

Two strangers work together to determine what is worth remembering while language, and memory, deterioriates.
Recollectors

"A History of Sitting in Waiting Rooms (or whatever longer title you prefer)" is the coming of age story you never knew you wanted. Meet Lorenita: a rambunctious six-year-old with six cavities. One for each of the letters in her name, no one can pronounce. Lorenita is a butch Latina fighting to find herself in the cacophony of Queens, NY in the 90s. With the help of her imaginary best friend, Boo, a civil war ghost, Lorenita will poorly navigate the drawn-out pains of puberty.
A History of Sitting in Waiting Rooms (or Whatever Longer Title You Prefer)

When a closeted woman's girlfriend shows up unexpectedly to her grandfather's shiva, she must do anything in her power to stop her family from finding out.