Latinx & Chicanx

Anne García-Romero

Representative Plays:

Paloma (2019)
Provenance (2012)
Earthquake Chica (2007)

About the Playwright:

Anne García-Romero’s plays include Staging the Daffy Dame (LaunchPad UCSB), Lorca in New York (Denver Center Theater commission), Provenance (Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference), Paloma (National Latino Playwriting Award runner-up), Mary Domingo (Goodman Theatre commission), Earthquake Chica (National Latino...

Evelina Fernández

Representative Plays:

Dementia (2010)
Solitude (2009)
La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin (holiday pageant play)

Bio:

Evelina Fernández was born and raised in East LA. She is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and actor. She was most recently a staff writer for the Emmy Nominated original Hulu series EAST LOS HIGH. In 2013 she won the LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Writing of a World Premiere Play for A MEXICAN TRILOGY now being published by Samuel French. Her plays have made the LA Times...

Estela Portillo-Trambley

Representative Plays:

Puente Negro (1983)
Blacklight (1975)
Day of the Swallows (1971)

Bio:

Estela Portillo Trambley was a writer and award-winning playwright from El Paso, Texas. She was the granddaughter of Mexican immigrants, and graduated with a degree in English literature from the University of Texas-El Paso. She taught in the El Paso public school system, and was one of the founders of Los Pobres, the first Hispanic Theater in El Paso. Trambley also hosted a local political radio talk show called...

Culture Clash (Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Sigüenza)

Representative Plays:

Anthems (2005)
Mission Magic Mystery Tour (2003)
Bordertown (2001)
A Bowl of Beings (1992)
The Mission (1988)

Bio:

Culture Clash is a performance troupe that currently comprises writer-comedians Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Sigüenza. Their work is of a satirical nature.

Culture Clash was founded on May 5, 1984 at the Galería de la Raza in San Francisco's Mission District, by the writers José Antonio Burciaga, Marga Gómez, Monica Palacios, Richard...

Cristal González Avila

Representative Plays:

Luz: A Shadow Play Inspired by Senior Stories (2018)

Bio:

A company member with El Teatro Campesino and Baktun12, Cristal González Avila is a first generation Chicana actress, playwright, poet and director from Watsonville, CA. She holds a B.A in Theater Arts from San Jose University and is a Reed Award recipient for Excellence in Acting and Oral Interpretation. Her recent work includes "La Sombra" (The Shadow) a solo performance, a full length play PIERNAS: The Story Between Our...

Cherríe Moraga

Representative Plays:

The Mathematics of Love (2017)
Digging Up the Dirt (2010)
The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea (1995)

Bio:

Cherríe Moraga is an internationally recognized poet, playwright, essayist and memoirist. As a playwright, she has received two Fund for New American Plays Awards, the NEA’s Playwrights’ Fellowship, as well as a Drama-logue and Critics Circle Award, and the Pen West Award. She has published three volumes of plays: Heroes & Saints & Other Plays; The Hungry Woman/Heart of...

Caridad Svich

Representative Plays:

Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell that was Once Her Heart: A Rave (2004)
12 Ophelias (2004)
Any Place but Here (2003)

Bio:

Caridad Svich is a playwright, songwriter, editor and translator inspired by her background. She was born in the US to Cuban-Argentine-Spanish-Croatian parents and moved many times as a child, leading to a sense of dislocation she explores in her writing. Key works in her repertoire include 12 Ophelias, Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the...

Ariel Dorfman

Representative Plays:

Death and the Maiden (1991)
Purgatorio (2006)

Bio:

Ariel Dorfman, the Chilean-American author of numerous works in both Spanish and English, holds the Walter Hines Page chair at Duke University. His books have been translated into over forty languages and his plays staged in more than one hundred countries. His play Death and the Maiden won England’s Olivier Award for Best Play 1991 and was produced on Broadway, made into a feature film by Roman Polanski and was revived in London’s West End...

Roy Conboy

Representative Plays:

Tailor From Chihuahua (2005)
Drive My Coche (1999)
When El Cucui Walks (1995)
The Journeys of the Angels (1995)
Dancing With the Missing (1992)

Bio:

Roy Conboy is a writer, director, and teacher of Latino/Mixed Blood descent. For more than 25 years he has been the head of the Playwriting Program at San Francisco State University....

Naomi Iizuka

Representative Plays:

17 Reasons (Why) (2003)

36 Views (2000)

Language of Angels (2000)

Polaroid Stories (1997)

Bio:

Naomi Iizuka. Naomi Iizuka's most recent play, 17 Reasons (Why), was produced at Campo Santo + Intersection for the Arts and published by Stage and Screen in the anthology Breaking Ground: Adventurous Plays By Adventurous Theatres, edited by Kent Nicholson. Her other plays include 36 Views; Polaroid Stories; Language of Angels; War of the Worlds (written in collaboration...