mila cuda
Mila Cuda is the current Youth Poet Laureate of the West Coast. Her debut book, Dishwater Blonde, was released this past June. She is the former captain of the LA Brave New Voices team, a two time Classic Slam champion, and ranked fourth in the world for collegiate slam poetry, as part of the Wellesley College CUPSI team. Her work has been featured on Button Poetry, Rookie, and PBS, as well as the “Wonder Woman” dvd. Mila is a spider nerd and glitter enthusiast who loves her dogs despite her allergies. She is also featured in and worked closely with the director as the story editor of the upcoming 2020 film "Summertime", directed by Carlos López Estrada, who's first feature film "Blindspotting" (starring Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal) was nominated for the 2018 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, with Estrada nominated by the DGA for Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director.“Summertime” premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, and will be distributed by Good Deed Entertainment in the Spring of 2021.
“The first of the bunch to really hook me featured Mila Cuda on a public bus professing her sexual orientation to a judgmental passenger. It’s a riveting scene all on its own that also highlights one of the most powerful pieces of connective tissue in Summertime – all of the segments feature young Angelenos embracing who they are and sharing it with the world.” — Collider (Summertime Review)
Press Photos
Performance Links
Hey, I’m Gay
Finding the Wonder Woman Within
A Student Named Art
Exes
“My Life Stood A Loaded Gun" & "Yellow Light
Press for “Summertime”
“The first of the bunch to really hook me featured Mila Cuda on a public bus professing her sexual orientation to a judgmental passenger. It’s a riveting scene all on its own that also highlights one of the most powerful pieces of connective tissue in Summertime – all of the segments feature young Angelenos embracing who they are and sharing it with the world.”
— Collider
“…the director and his “poem coordinator” Mila Cuda deserve credit for pulling it all together so vibrantly.”
“I held the script so many times, but I hadn’t actually been able to see it visualized, and so I think being in the audience with all of my closest friends and seeing those friends on stage being so brilliant and amazing, and I already knew they were brilliant and amazing, but to see them be so dynamic and electric on a big screen just felt like the ultimate payoff, and I’m still jazzed about it.”