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Tanya Saracho

TANYA SARACHO

  
Nationality:    Mexican
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Literary Agent:    Bret Adams Ltd  represented by Mark Orsini

Tanya Saracho is a native of Sinaloa, Mexico. Named "Best New Playwright" by Chicago magazine, she is a new Ensemble Member at Victory Gardens Theater, a resident playwright emerita at Chicago Dramatists, a Goodman Theatre Fellow at the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media at Columbia College Chicago, founder and co-director of ALTA and co-founder and former Artistic Director of Teatro Luna. Her plays have been seen at the Goodman Theatre, Mo'olelo Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Teatro Vista, Teatro Luna, the Fountain Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Next Theatre Company, 16th Street Theater, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Her plays include Enfrascada, El Nogalar, the House On Mango Street (adaptation), Our Lady Of the Underpass, Surface Day, Kita Y Fernanda, Quita Mitos, Song for the Disappeared, and the Tenth Muse. Saracho is a winner of the Ofner Prize, a recipient of an NEA Distinguished New Play Development Project Grant and a 3Arts Artists Award. Saracho is a member of SAG/AFTRA and the Writers' Guild of America. Currently, she writes for the Lifetime series Devious Maids.

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         El Nogalar         Enfrascada (A Jarring Comedy of Hoodoo Proportions)         Fade         Mala Hierba         Oh, Gastronomy!         Our Good Night         Our Lady of the Underpass         Our War         Song For the Disappeared         Tenth Muse, The

El Nogalar

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A modern, Mexican adaptation of The Cherry Orchard

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adaptation

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Enfrascada (A Jarring Comedy of Hoodoo Proportions)

Synopsis:
This is part of Clubbed Thumb's annual Summerworks Festival. In Enfrascada, when Alicia's world is turned upside down, she and her friends mine the underworlds of Brujeria, Santeria, and Hoodoo searching for that thing that will put it all back, the way it used to be.
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HERE Arts Center - Mainstage
145 6th AVenue, New York, NY 10013     11 Jun 2011

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comedy

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Fade

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Nominated for The Kilroys 2015. The Kilroys is a group of playwrights and producers in LA who publish an annual industry survey of excellent new plays by female and trans playwrights. It is a tool for producers committed to ending the systemic underrepresentation of female and trans playwrights in the American theater.

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Mala Hierba

Synopsis:
Liliana has a sparkle few can deny and no one can resist. The trophy wife of a border magnate living in Texas, she's seemingly impeccable. But beneath that polished exterior lies a fierce determination to survive at any cost. When Liliana's true desires break the surface, she'll have to decide between the value of obligation versus the price of freedom.

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1st Produced:
Flatiron Building, Chicago     15 Oct 2010

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XYZ Festival of New Work

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Drama

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Oh, Gastronomy!

Oh, Gastronomy!
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written by by Michael Golamco, Carson Kreitzer, Steve Moulds, Tanya Saracho, et al.

1st Produced:
Humana Festival Of New American Plays At Actors Theatre Of Louisville     2012

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in Humana Festival 2012: the Complete Plays, Actors Theatre of Louisville   978-1623840006

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short play

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Our Good Night

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On her way home for the holidays a woman faces dissolution

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16th Street Theater, Chicago     10 Nov 2010

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Our Lady of the Underpass

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The same week that Rome announced a new Pope, a woman driving home from work spotted an image of the Virgin Mary on a discolored wall of the Fullerton Avenue underpass. Inspired by real life interviews, playwright Tanya Saracho renders the voices of those who were drawn to that wall, exploring issues of faith and desire in present day Chicago.

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1st Produced:
Goodman Theatre, Chicago     25 Sep 2006

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comedy, docudrama/historic, drama, faith-based

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Our War

Synopsis:
While the plays that took the perspective of participants were some of the most crisp, the last kind of play in the evening, plays that look at today with the eyes of the present (but through the lens or with the lighting of the Civil War), hit the hardest. Most of them use the Civil War as a way to talk about race in America, from Ken Narasaki's thoughts on racism that isn't divided into Black and White to Lydia Diamond's chastisement of White liberal guilt. - http://dctheatrescene.com/2014/10/28/war-arena-stage-resounding-success/

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An esteemed collection of American playwrights, including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award and Olivier Award, creates a dynamic new theatrical event reflecting on the repercussions of the U.S. Civil War. Through a rich tapestry of short monologues, a core ensemble of gifted actors, accompanied by notable Washingtonians such as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Eleanor Holmes Norton and Chris Matthews, explorethrough diverse perspectivesthe historical memory and present-day reverberations of the U.S. Civil War. Our War, commissioned by Arena Stage for the National Civil War Project, uses the power of live theater to bring new understanding to the shades of Blue and Gray that define one of the most significant periods of American history.

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monologue

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Song For the Disappeared

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A family unites when the youngest son is apparently kidnapped by a drug gang

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Theatre Lab At Sundance Resort     01 Jul 2012

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Tenth Muse, The

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In a lively 18th-century convent in colonial Mexico, young nuns and servants unearth a hidden play written by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, a nun and famous intellectual who died 20 years earlier after falling out of favor with the church. At night, behind the back of the Mother Superior, they act out Sor Juana's ribald farce, revealing her blazing, blasphemous talent. . .and discovering their own complex bonds of sisterhood.

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