As a FILMMAKER, Doria seeks to uplift underrepresented stories. 

 

Her award-winning documentary feature, The Refugees of Shangri La, has screened worldwide and has been supported by the United Nations and the State Department. The film has screened in festivals and prestigious educational institutions the world over, and, more importantly, has helped voice the unknown plight of the former Bhutanese refugee communities, creating a tool for healing, justice and aiding the transition to their resettlement communities. Her journalism has been published in the International Organization for Migration's Magazine (IOM). She has been interviewed for Smithsonian  and Himalaya Magazine and featured on NPR. 

 

As a theater artist, Doria has worked internationally as an actress, singer and collaborator. A self-described "closet archeologist", Doria loves working with living history museums to bring walls of the past to life through theatre.

 

Doria is a long-term company member of the tall-ship theater vagabonds of the Caravan Stage Company. With "The Caravan" she has toured all over Europe, The US and Canada helping them to produce over 7 new shows over the course of 12 years.

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Doria goes where the work is. An avid traveller and seasonal bird, Doria has been to over 50 countries and often called Carmen Sandiego or Doria the Exploria by her loved ones. 

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Fun Fact: She holds an advanced wine certification from the Wine and Spirit Education Trust and a small vineyard that she planted during lock-down. 

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She has sung the National Anthem for Barack Obama. The former president has even come to her house! ​ She is a practicing Buddhist, yoga teacher and seeker of unifying truths. She holds a BFA in Drama from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.​She believes in world peace.