Who  

An artist with a writing problem. Sees different worlds where certain "if's" could stand the question, and wants to make them. Plays at reinventing, painting, and letting the current tides shape her/she/hers. Bilingual, writes because language is the shortcut to humanity, but is obsessed with images because of the impact of Ideas as Movement, (or is it theatre.) Lucidly avant-garde, quixotical perhaps, with chaplinesque vibe, enjoys making plays that are on-the-further-side of human (ultra-humanism)—tragedy on its head, ridiculous at best, but as real as the rest. 

A recent MacDowell fellow, where she had the freedom to create and enjoy the company of chipmunks, believes that—yes— art is the start of all freedom. Born and raised in Ciudad Juaréz, spending formative years in Zacatecas, is grateful for the freedom in art and wonders about Latin America, at war with itself, and if it's education and art that can replace hatred and guns. 

She has been called a hopeful existentialist, and her work ranges from "an emotional disco ball" to "playful and soothing" to "beautiful and grotesque" as well as "from another plane." Her work is inherently Mexican and infused with high-desert roots. Her Frontera Aesthetic is an endless well, built stone by stone by her scholarly ancestors who, as both historians and educators, reshaped the state of the North towards the positive, sustainable, and ecological—if only for a century. A border-dweller in self and influence, in-between is all she's ever been. 

What   

Selected Writing Credits:

• Sweep (World Premiere: Aurora Theatre, GA 2017;  Lincoln Center Director's Lab, NY 2016); Coffee & Whiskey, IL 2018; Finalist National Latino Playwriting Award 2017, Carnaval Festival of New Latinx Works, IL 2015; The Brooklyn Generator 2014 Selection published in "Scenes for Latinx Actors.")
• Ash Tree  ( Kennedy Center National TYA Playwriting Award, 2010; ASSITEJ Denmark/Sweden, 2011; World Premiere: Duke City Repertory Theatre, 2012; Bonderman 2011; Fourth Wall Productions Pop-up On Site Series 2012.)
• Death & The Tramp (Commission: Milagro Theatre, OR, 2016)
• Penny Pinball Presents the Beacons (50 PP Selection: "Best Unproduced Plays 2018"; INTAR Unit 52 New Works Lab workshop, 2017.)
• ...Jones (The Movement Theatre Company reading 2017; Dixon Place Two-Night Series, 2016; The Flea Director's Fellow reading 2016; Coffee & Whiskey Script Pub, 2015.)

Others:

• B.I. (be) (Teatro Milagro Tour, 2018-19)
• All Strings Considered (New York Children's Theatre and Queens College tour 2019)
• A Ribbon About a Bomb (Exquisite Corpse Company, NY Summer 2018)
• Firerock (Little Globe Productions—The Lensic, 2012; The Magic Theatre workshop 2016.)
• The Ruin (Manhattan Repertory Theatre Winterfest, 2011)
• Bag of Bones (or The Circuz) (Teatro Nuevo Mexico reading 2010; KCACTF Region VI Selection 2009.)

Under Construction: 

• StoneHeart, A Deconstructed Western 'Giant' meets 'The Others'
• Then They Forgot About the Rest, Apocalyptic 'Empire Records' meets 'Get Out
• The Beacons Retro-Futura 'The Warriors' meets 'Tommy's The Who'

Directing Credits:

• ​All Strings Considered (NY Children's Theatre 2018), 
• B.I. (be) (Teatro Milagro,  2018), 
  
• Bicycle Country (Aurora Theatre 2017), 
• El Payaso (Teatro Milagro 2017), 
• Death & The Tramp (Milagro Theatre 2016),
• Musings (HorseHair Strike Team, Music Direction), 
• ​Ash Tree (Duke City Rep, 2012).

Translations:

• ​Quixote on the Conquest of Self by Claudio Valdez Kuri and Monica Hoth, 
• Martina and the Bird Men by Monica Hoth, 
• Paloma by Anne-Garcia Romero, 
• Tuko Tuko and the Lizard Moon Princess by Anton Juan,
• Becoming Cuba by Melinda Lopez, 
• Sonia Flew by Melinda Lopez.

​Artistic Development:
Djerassi Residency (2018), MacDowell Fellow (2018), Fornés Writing Workshop (2017-18), Project Y Writers Group (2018), Clubbed Thumb Emerging Writer (2016-17), Marfa Live Arts Playwright (2017).

Other fun stuff:  

• Arts Journalism: American Theatre Magazine, HowlRound, Café Onda, Extended Play & Culturebot.
• Advisory Committee for Latinx Theatre Commons (2018-Present).
• Steering Committee Member for the Latinx Theatre Commons (2013-2017).

• Co-Producer: The Vagina Monologues: Spotlight on the Women of Juarez in El Paso/Juarez: starring Jane Fonda, Sally Field and Lila Aragon; benefiting Casa Amiga of Juarez
• Awarded: "Outstanding Service to Women on The Border."
• Co-Producer: Anton in Show Business: Share The Spotlight, and created a new Scholarship for theatre students at the University of Texas, El Paso.