Eiko La Boria was born in Santurce, P.R.; she was named after the love interest, Eiko Tanaka, in the late great Sydney Pollack directed film, "The Yakuza". Eiko's favorite quote is from Albert Einstein, “Imagination is more important than knowledge”. Eiko is the great-niece of poet and performer, Juan Boria and studied dance under Jacques D’Amboise of the National Dance Institute. She has performed at Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, The United Nations and Lincoln Center. Eiko has performed her original writings at KGB, A Gathering of the Tribes, Back Fence, and the Tribeca Arts Center, New York. She was the recipient of a 2006 WGAE Foundation/Harlem Arts Alliance Screenwriting Fellowship at Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York, under the mentorship of Academy Award Nominee Professor Jamal Joseph.  She also won a scholarship to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York, New York. In 2007, Eiko won another fellowship, The Film Program Cannes under the mentorship of Robert Nickson of the NYU Film Program, during the 60^thanniversary of the Cannes Film Festival (The Marche du Film) in Cannes, France.   She has written three feature film scripts, over a dozen short stories, and one graphic novel.