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Name: Marisela
Metro: San Francisco
Interests: Poetry, theatre, film, tango
Expertise:
Poetry
Published in Traverse, 26 (issue D), Pomona Valley Review, BorderSenses and Double Room.
Playwriting
American Triage :
Play commissioned by Marin Theatre Company 2006. 2007 MTC Nu Werkz series; 2008 MTC workshop production.
Braided Sorrow :
2005 Bay Area Playwrights Festival; 2006 Ford Amphitheatre Latina/o Summer Play Reading Series; 2006 Chicano/Latino Literary Prize 1st Place winner, University of California Irvine; September 2008, 1st production, El Centro Su Teatro, Denver, CO; 2009 Pen Center USA Literary Award for Drama.
Ghost Limb :
(Work in Progress)
Just Theatre 2007 Play Lab.
Heart Shaped Nebula:
(Work in Progress)
Woman on Fire :
2006 Primer Pasos: A Festival de Latino Plays, Latino Playwrights Initiative; 2007 Bay Area Playwrights Festival BASH (Bay Area SHorts); 2008 In The Rough reading series, Playwrights Foundation.
Occupation: Playwright, Poet
Message: message meEmail: email me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
6/9/2005
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| A Full Day
I've got a full day of activities lined up. First, I'm going to go see the documentary film 389 Miles: Living the Border, it's one of the films in the San Francisco Latino Film Festival and I was recently "introduced" to the director who happens to be a friend of a friend. I'm going to show my support and as someone who takes an interest in border issues, I'm sure I'll learn something.
Next I'm going to meet up with Mica, the Organizational Manager at Su Teatro in Denver. She's in the Bay Area this weekend. I'm hoping we can having dinner in the Mission and then we can head to the Playwrights Pub Night.
At 8pm I'm heading over to Shotwell's for the final pub night of 2009. I'm only going to be able to stay until midnight, after that I turn into a pumpkin.
More later,
M
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| Happy Friday the 13th
Gawd, I love these chickens!
-M
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| Major To Do List
Some deadlines are fast approaching and I need to do the following:
1. Finish edits on Heart Shaped Nebula
2. Submit Heart Shaped Nebula to the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, deadline November 20th
3. Write a 5 minute acceptance speech for the PEN award ceremony
4. Rent car for PEN award trip
5. Organize a table reading for Heart Shaped Nebula
6. Go see The Bald Soprano at Cutting Ball
7. Go see Drip at Crowded Fire
8. Go see Boom at Marin Theatre Company
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| New Play Blog Interviews Amy Mueller of the Playwrights Foundation
I'm a big fan of the Playwrights Foundation. It was their support and their amazing Bay Area Playwrights Festival that put me on the playwriting path.
New Play Blog recently interviewed Amy Mueller, Artistic Director of the Playwrights Foundation, about the foundation and its work. It's a must read.
So, you must read it.
-M
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| Weekly Dance Card
This week I'm going to an alumni happy hour, which I think purposely coincides with homecoming back at the old alma mater. We're meeting this Thursday at the Tunnel Top on Bush Street, just atop the Broadway Tunnel.
Friday, I'm thinking I'll go see The Bald Soprano at Cutting Ball. I'll try and invite a friend to come along so at least we can maybe have dinner before hand.
Saturday will be a full day. First there's the film screening of 389 Millas: Viviendo La Frontera / 389 Miles “Living The Border” by Director Luis Carlos Romero-Davis. Luis Carlos is a friend of a friend and as someone who writes about the border (3 plays and counting), I definitely want to check out the film. It's playing this Saturday at the Lumiere.
Saturday is also the final Playwrights Pub Night of 2009. We're gonna be in the Mission this time and I hope we have a good showing to close out the year.
I'd also like to go to the movies this week, but we'll see it it all pans out.
-M
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