Sabrina Peña Young, the daughter of Dominican and Cuban parents and recent recipient of the Cintas Foundation Music Fellowship, grew up in South Florida during the 1980s. Over the next several years Young explored media and music, writing music and creating zombie effects for indie B horror films, composing complex electronic media works like World Order #5, writing for Kalup Linzy in his film Conversations wid de churn II and studying film for a year at Florida International University in Miami where she premiered works like A Portrait of Urban Life at Art Basil Miami and Arts Miami.
In 2013 the animated Libertaria: The Virtual Opera was premiered in Lake Worth, Florida, created entirely through internet collaboration. In 2014, Young gave a TED Talk at TEDxBuffalo on “Singing Geneticists and EPIC Machinima Opera”.
Young currently resides in Buffalo, New York, where she is involved in several film productions like the cancer documentary The Fearless and Resilient and the sci-fi film Spiritus.
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