Danice Cabanela (she/her) is an actor, producer and community advocate born in the Philippines and raised in San Antonio, TX. She began her acting career in Minneapolis where she attended the U of M/Guthrie BFA Actor Training Program. She is classically trained from the Guthrie Theater as well as Shakespeare's Globe, London, and is a co-founder of Filipinx Actors Barkada, an all-Filipinx artist group with members across the U.S. and Canada. Over the pandemic, she also co-founded APA Artists for Change that aims to connect, educate, and galvanize artists toward higher civic engagement to take action on local and national levels. During the 2023 SAG-AFTRA Strike, Danice served as a strike captain on the Warner Bros picket line alongside her fellow union siblings, and also serves as Co-Vice Chair of the LA Organizing Committee, member of the Responsible Strike Preparedness Committee and LA Conservatory Committees and is a newly inducted delegate for the 

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Danice is a passionate advocate for mental health, yoga, social justice,  and doing what we can in a society that often seems insurmountable.

 

She enjoys animals, LAFC, spending time with family and friends, and RuPaul's Drag Race. She is currently based in

Los Angeles, CA.