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JANIS ASTOR DEL VALLE

  
Nationality:    USA
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Janis Astor del Valle is a Latina lesbian writer/performer/filmmaker whose work is published in six anthologies, including Puro Teatro and Action: The Nuyorican Poets Café Theater Festival. She was awarded a 2011 Artist Fellowship Grant in Playwriting from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. Janis is a past recipient of the Zaki Gordon Award for Excellence in Screenwriting, and an Aurand Harris Fellowship from the Childrens Theatre Foundation of America. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Arts Management at SUNY Purchase. Previously, Janis served as the Executive Director of Youth Rights Media. She has taught theatre and creative writing at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts and served as Director of Wesleyan Universitys Green Street Arts Center. Prior to returning to Connecticut, Janis was Youth Development Specialist at The Point, a community cultural center in the South Bronx. Janis holds an MFA in Film from Columbia University and a BA in Theatre from Marymount Manhattan College. She has performed at numerous venues in and outside New York, including HERE, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Hartford Stage, Yale, Dartmouth, Smith, DePaul, Wesleyan, UMASS and Suffolk County Community College. Her work has been produced by Dixon Place, INTAR, Pregones, Cornell University, and University of Santa Cruz. Janis is currently touring her solo plays, both directed by Carolyn Kirsch, to foster discourse about diversity and acceptance: Trans Plantations, which explores her identity crisis as a New York-born Puerto Rican lesbian uprooted from the Bronx and transplanted to Connecticut; and, Becoming Joaquin, about a transgendered Latino and his family who are in therapy, struggling to accept his identity. She resides in New Haven with her wife, their cat and dog.

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        Becoming Joaquin         I'll Be Home Para La Navidad         Ole         Trans Plantations