interdisciplinary artist
WRITING
A few thought pieces, commissions from the BIPOC Critics Lab, original poetry and monologues.
My writing has been commissioned by the National Abortion Campaign in Colombia, the Nobel Women’s Initiative, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, the MADRE Organization, the New Georges Theatre, the New York African Film Festival, and The Public Theater. In 2022, I was a semifinalist in the Decolonization Stories Competition organized by Altertheatre and La Lengua Teatro Español, and a finalist in the Playground Experiment Faces of America Monologue Competition. My short film, Like a Virgin, was awarded the 2022 New Work Grant by the Queens Council of the Arts and was sponsored by Technological Cinevideo Services (TCS) in New York City. I'm a proud alum of the 2020 pilot cohort of the BIPOC Critics Lab of Jose Solis and former moderator of the BIPOC Critics Lab Forum for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Caesura: Poetry and Stories about the Future of Feminist Peace
At the intersection of the artistic and the political, Caesura is a limited engagement podcast rooted in a celebration of women and our common work for peace, freedom, and equality. Caesura was a beautiful project commissioned to me by WILPF in 2021. In this podcast, we dissected some of my original anti-militaristic poetry and interviewed guests from all over the world, exploring topics ranging from feminism to trauma, intergenerational heritage to violence, pop culture to poetry, and much more.
The Vagrant Trilogy Q&A
BIPOC Critics Lab piece commissioned by The Public Theatre about working on this production for over 10 years, and what it means to bring it to life at this moment in history at The Public Theater.
Theatre Three: Cast Perspectives
An essay about performing Masha in The Seagull and other 'canon' characters as a Latina actor in 2024. Featured in T3's Website.
Tiny Plays Rewind Review
This essay is a parallel response to the New Georges’ project tiny plays for the time of no plays, which landed in the audience’s inboxes via e-blast on March 18, the first week of the lockdown. The following is a parallel perspective on each moment of the tiny plays.
This was my first BIPOC Critics Lab commission.
New York African Film Festival Review: Amil Shivji’s Tug of War, Not a Love Story but a Love Letter to Freedom
A review of Amil Shivji's film, and third feature, that premiered in 2021 at the New York African Film Festival.
La Lengua/ AlterTheater Ensemble's Decolonization Stories Commission Semifinalist (2022)
A festival that presents staged readings of plays in multiple languages seeking to highlight and undo the process of colonization. Four playwrights from the Black, Indigenous, and Latinx communities participated in a multilingual play development process to create new works that seek to undo the legacy of colonialism. My sample was a semifinalist for the commission.
PGE Faces of America Monologue Competition Finalist (2022)
A monologue written as part of the 2022 monologue competition organized by PGE. The prompt was: 'Write a monologue that includes the word "kindness" somewhere in your monologue. The monologue should be less than 2 minutes.' This piece was one of the finalists.