Lourds Lane

Lourds Lane, a Filipino-American, classically trained on piano and violin at age three, wrote book, music, lyrics, arrangements, orchestrations, and originates the role of "Rise," the electric violin-playing superhero “misfit” of "SuperYou." The visionary and heart behind the SuperYou social good mission, Lourds Lane teaches global youth and adults to connect to their most empowered superhero selves through the educational arts and music-based 501c3 she founded, The SuperYou FUNdation. Lourds is a 2018 Actor’s Equity Association Paul Robeson Award Finalist for her dedication to the “betterment of humankind,” winner of the 2019 Ideagen Global Leadership Award, a two-time Fred Ebb musical theatre award finalist (2012 and 2018), Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed alumni, a celebrated speaker at TEDWomen, TEDYouth, the United Nations, and Forbes Women, inspiring global audiences with empowering music-infused talks She was the creator of a female indie rock musician community in NYC, The Medusa Festival, and the lead singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist of her own critically-acclaimed nationally touring rock band.