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Current Work
Currently I'm working on a new play, Heart Shaped Nebula, and hope to have a first draft completed soon. I'm also finishing re-writes on a re-imagining of Sophocles' Antigone set along the U.S. / Mexico border. Woman on Fire was commissioned by the Latino Playwrights Initiative, Austin Script Works, and Teatro Vivo. |
Short Bio
Marisela Treviño Orta received an MFA in Writing with a concentration in Poetry from the University of San Francisco. Her first play, Braided Sorrow, was read at the 2005 Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the 2006 [Inside] the Ford Summer Reading series; won the UC Irvine Chicano/Latino Literary Prize in Drama; and was produced in the Fall of 2008 at El Centro Su Teatro in Denver, CO, where it received an extended run.
Marisela’s play American Triage was commissioned by Marin Theatre Company and received a workshop production in February 2008. Her one act Woman on Fire was read at the Latino Playwright Initiative’s Primer Pasos: Un Festival de Latino Plays in October 2006 and read at the 2007 Bay Area Playwrights Festival BASH (Bay Area SHorts) program. Latino Playwrights Initiative (LPI) coordinators Austin Script Works and Teatro Vivo commissioned a full-length version of Woman on Fire, which was read in Austin at an LPI reading and in San Francisco as part of the Playwrights Foundation’s In The Rough reading series.
Recently Marisela taught playwriting at San Francisco School for the Arts and participated in Just Theatre’s New Play Lab. Currently she is a Resident Playwright at the Playwrights Foundation, San Francisco.
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Honors
2008 Resident Playwright, Playwrights Foundation, San Francisco; Southwestern University Young Alumna Achievement Award; 2006 Chicano/Latino Literary Prize in Drama; 2005 Zora Neale Hurston Award, Summer Writing Program, Naropa University. |
Union Affiliations/Professional Organizations
Resident Playwright, Playwrights Foundation, San Francisco, CA
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Artist Location
San Francisco, CA
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Type of artist
Writer, Arts Educator
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General Themes
Activism/Social Justice, Race/Ethnicity/Cultural Identity, Death & Dying |
Keywords
Latino, Latina, Latin-American, Latin American, Hispanic, Immigration, Border Issues, Border, Mexican American, Mexican-American, Texas, Mexico Border, poet, poetry, Marisela Orta |
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