I create theatrical performances and direct and choreograph plays and musicals.
Story is at the center of my practice. I begin at the personal and travel towards the political.
I direct in English, in Spanish, and bilingually.
I am inspired by magic realism, musical theater, pop culture, history, the news, live musical performances, and teatro criollo. Influenced by my ancestors' journey to South America in the early 1900s, and my parents' journey to the US in the 1990s, my work converses with 20th century history through lenses of womanhood, gender politics, and international relations.
Interdisciplinary collaboration essential to this process.
My partners are composers, dancers, visual artists.
Our exchange is not permanent agreement, but collision and adaptation.
I work to interrogate ideas, challenge my assumptions and offer audiences complexity. Not to prescribe dogma.
Celebration and humor are vehicles to arrive at:
(1) discomfort
(2) disagreement
(3) self-recognition
(4) empathy.
I seek stories that challenge simplistic narratives and make the everyday unfamiliar, connecting us to the past & reminding us of where we're going.