Roberta Colindrez

Roberta Colindrez is a Mexican-American actor and writer born on May 28, 1986, in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, with Argentinian and Honduran heritage. She relocated from Mexico to Houston at age five, spent six years there, and then moved to Austin, Texas at age ten. A theater class she took with her brother at age twelve sparked her interest in acting. She attended Westwood High School before earning a bachelor's degree in acting from Texas State University. After graduating, she moved to New York City, where she supported herself working in restaurants and as a church janitor while pursuing performance work, eventually joining the New York Neo-Futurists.

Colindrez made her off-off-Broadway debut in 2006 in the Neo-Futurist revue Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. In 2011, she wrote and starred in the film Otis Under Sky. Her most prominent stage credit came in 2013, when she originated the role of Joan in the musical Fun Home during its off-Broadway run at Second Stage Theater, which ran from September 30, 2013, through January 12, 2014. The production transferred to Broadway, where it opened on April 19, 2015, ran through September 2016, won five Tony Awards, and received seven additional nominations. Her Broadway career also includes Cult of Love at Second Stage Theater, in which she played Pippa Ferguson, with performances running from December 12, 2024, through February 2, 2025. Her other stage work includes Mala Hierba at Second Stage Theater in 2014, an off-Broadway production of Hamlet in 2017 in which she played Rosencrantz, and a 2022 workshop of Spreckles by Césaire José Carroll-Domínguez, in which she originated the role of the Farmer, presented at the Beyond the Box performance festival in Marfa, Texas, with Marfa Live Arts at the Crowley Theater.

On television, Colindrez appeared in the series I Love Dick, with her performance described as a breakout in an interview with Vanity Fair. In 2018, she joined the cast of HBO's The Deuce as Irene, and in 2019 she joined Vida as Nico. Beginning in 2020, she played Lupe in Amazon's A League of Their Own, a series centered on the All American Girls Professional Baseball League. She has also appeared in the films Ms. White Light (2019) and Cassandro (2023), and contributed voice acting to the podcast Alice Isn't Dead across six episodes between 2016 and 2017, as well as a single episode of It Makes a Sound in 2018. In addition to performing, Colindrez writes for the stage. She identifies as queer and butch.