I almost gave up on art. In fact, I didn’t even know I was an artist. I always imagined female artists as lithe, dispassionate, a little rugged even—flat-bottomed-and-full-breasted Sam Shepards who photographed straight on, cool, and otherworldly. No way a once chubby young girl with a Spanish name who found everything funny could be taken seriously. That is until I took myself and everything that happened in my life seriously.
All you need to know about me is that I grew up in Houston, my parents are from Cuba, I live in Los Angeles, and love my son very much. The rest is in my writing.
A Writer ComE of age
Honors & Festivals
Selected playwright for Road Theatre’s Summer Playwright’s Festival, 2024
Finalist in Fulton Theatre’s Stories of DIVERSITY PLAYWRITING FESTIVAL, 2021
Semi-finalist Princess Grace Awards in Playwriting/Fellowship at New Dramatists, 2021
Semi-finalist for 21st Century Voices at American Stage, 2021
Finalist for Athena Project’s Plays in Progress Series, 2020
Finalist for LAB at Local Theater, 2019
Semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwright Conference 2019
SF Sketchfest, 2011 & 2013
Los Angeles Coedy Festival, 2012
Selected screenwriter for Los Angeles
Latino International Film Festival’s Screenwriting Workshop
Finalist for Desi Arnaz Screenwriting Fellowship
Selected filmmaker for Barcelona’s MECAL short film festival
Speaking at Road Theatre Company in Los Angeles on a part of my writer’s journey.