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Elaine Romero

ELAINE ROMERO

  
Nationality:    USA
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Elaine ROMERO's plays Barrio Hollywood, Secret Things, Living Dolls, ¡Curanderas! Serpents of the Clouds, the Fat-Free Chicana and the Snow Cap Queen, and Day of Our Dead have been presented at such Theatres as Actors Theatre of Louisville, Ford AmphiTheater, Women's Project and Productions, Dodger Stages, San Diego Rep, INTAR, the Working Theatre, Magic Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Kitchen Dog Theatre, Phoenix Theatre, City Theatre, Borderlands, Theatre, the Miracle Theatre, Invisible Theatre, and the New Theatre. She has been published by Vintage Books, Samuel French, University of Iowa Press, Smith & Kraus, Heinemann Press, and Simon and Schuster (upcoming). A past Guest Artist at South Coast Repertory, Romero serves as playwright-in-Residence at the Arizona Theatre Company, managing their National Latino Playwriting Award. Romero participated in the TCG/Pew National Theatre Artist in Residency Program and the NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights. She attended the Sundance Institute's Playwright's Retreat at the Ucross Foundation where she began Walk into the Sea, for which she received a 2005 Magic Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science and Technology commissioning. the Curious Theatre in Denver has commissioned Elaine to write Rain of Ruin for their War anthology, which will include works by Suzan-Lori Parks, Paula Vogel, and Tony Kushner. An excerpt of Curanderas was featured at the American National Theatre's Founder's Day Celebration, honoring August Wilson. Some of Elaine's other awards include the Tennessee Williams One-Act Play Contest, the Sprenger-Lang New History Play Contest, and a Playwriting Fellowship from Arizona Commission on the Arts. Secret Things was developed at the Arizona Theatre Company through the TCG/Pew National Theatre Artist in Residency Program, and further developed at Actors Theatre of Phoenix, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and the Ford AmphiTheater. Elaine holds her B.A. in Creative Writing from Linfield College and her MFA in Dramatic Art (playwriting) from the University of California at Davis. Elaine is a National Core Member of the Playwrights Center and a member of the Dramatists Guild.
biography courtesy of the Playwrights' Centre

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         Alicia         Baby Food         Barrio Hollywood         Before Death Comes for the Archbishop         Catalina de Erauso: the Man Inside of Me         Curanderas Serpents of the Clouds         Dalai Lama Is Not Welcome Here, The         Day of Our Dead         Dream Friend         Fat-Free Chicana, The and the Snow Cap Queen         Forced Entry         Glow in the Dark Woman         Graveyard of Empires         If Susan Smith Could Talk         If Susan Smith Could Talk         Like Heaven         Living Dolls         Majestic County         Modern Slave         Mother of Exiles         Ponzi         Prodigal Grandpa, The         Rain of Ruin         Revolutions         Roadaphobia         Secret Things         Simple Snow, A         Sniper, The         Something Rare and Wonderful         Undercurrents         Walk Into The Sea         Walking Home         Wetback         Work of Art, A

Alicia

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A bilingual adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, in Spanish and English. When Alicia is sent to her room for misbehaving, she's convinced that her parents have no idea who she really is. She confides in her beloved hamster Alfredito, who suddenly escapes through a hole in the wall, and miraculously, Alicia is able to follow him all the way into Wonderlandia. On her journey through this topsy-turvy world she meets all sorts of fantastic characters, negotiating strange situations before finally returning to her room a little wiser.

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Project Interact (Austin, Tx, United States)     2006

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45 min Fantasy

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Baby Food

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Spork, Tucson, AZ, 2001   -

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Barrio Hollywood

Barrio Hollywood
n Barrio Hollywood, a tense family Drama, a young Mexican-American boxer dreams of fighting his way out of his family's economic plight in his barrio neighborhood. His sister, a passionate ballet folklorico dancer and dedicated cultural artist, dreams of owning her own dance studio to pass her Mexican traditions on to another generation. their flamboyant mother dreams of taking her poker winnings and going on an extended vacation to the Canary Islands. the family's dreams are deferred when the young boxer sustains a brutal head injury in the boxing ring. As her brother's condition worsens, and as she falls unexpectedly in love with a white doctor from out-of-state, the dancer and her family learn how far they are willing to go in the name of love.

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Borderlands Theater, Tucson, Arizona     2003

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Olay/Drama

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Before Death Comes for the Archbishop

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Arizona Theatre Company, (Workshop Production), Tucson, Az     2000

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Catalina de Erauso: the Man Inside of Me

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Staged Reading Actors Theatre Of Phoenix, Phoenix, Az     2002

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Curanderas Serpents of the Clouds

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Invisible Theatre, Tucson, Az     2000

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Women Playwrights: the Best Plays of 2000, Smith & Kraus, Grantham, NH, 2002   -

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Dalai Lama Is Not Welcome Here, The

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Day of Our Dead

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The Working Theatre @ Urban Stages, New York, NY     2001

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Ten-Minute Plays" Volume 6 from Actors Theatre of Louisville, Samuel French Inc, New York, NY, 2004   -

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Dream Friend

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Fat-Free Chicana, The and the Snow Cap Queen

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Miracle Theatre, P Ortland, Or     1996

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Puro Teatro: Latinas in Teatro, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, 2000   -

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Forced Entry

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The Unlikely Theatre Company, Tempe, Az     1993

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Glow in the Dark Woman

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The Thirsty Theatre, Chicago, Il     1999

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Graveyard of Empires

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Drew Snider a soft wear engineer has developed soft wear for a new drone. His Nathan volunteers to go to war. He meets Romero Enriquez a pilot who is not allowed to fly. He fires weapons from Nevada into the Middle East. There is a friendly fire incident involving a drone

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Part of the "U S At War Trilogy"

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16th Street Theatre, Chicago     26 Mar 2015

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If Susan Smith Could Talk

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Planet Earth Multi-Cultural Theatre     1995

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Ten-Minute Plays: Volume 4 from the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Samuel French Inc, New York, NY, 1997   -

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If Susan Smith Could Talk

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30 Ten-Minute Plays for 4, 5, 6, Actors, Smith & Kraus, Patterson, NY, 2001   -

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Like Heaven

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Living Dolls

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Invisible Theatre Tucson, Az    

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Majestic County

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Modern Slave

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Andrea finds a note from a sweat shop worker in the pocket of her new designer coat

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Mother of Exiles

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A Latina teacher returns to her hometown on the Arizona Mexican border to take up a teaching job. The politics of fear hold her and her students hostage

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Ponzi

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Prodigal Grandpa, The

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La Compania De Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Nm     2002

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Rain of Ruin

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2007: the Best Ten-Minute Plays for Three or More Actors by Lawrence Harbison, Smith and Kraus (2008)   978-1575255903

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Revolutions

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Roadaphobia

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Poems & Plays, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 2000   -

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Secret Things

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When Delia, an ambitious journalist, receives anonymous articles about Mexican-Americans claiming to have hidden Jewish roots, she is intrigued . . . even if it means returning to her native town in New Mexico to investigate. She's on the outs with her editor/ex-boyfriend, and he wants her to say the story is a myth to save her job. But her estranged family, her mysterious dreams, and an alluring Crypto-Jew keep pointing her inward to a surprising truth. Will Delia be able to finish her story -- not just the one she was sent to write, but her own?

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Arizona Theatre Company (Workshop Production) (Tucson, Az, United States)     2000

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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75-80 min Play/Drama

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Simple Snow, A

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in the Best 10-Minute Plays for Two Actors 2006 (Contemporary Playwright) (Paperback) by D. L. Lepidus (Editor), Smith and Kraus    -

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Sniper, The

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the sniper does not realise the journalist will publish his confession to accidently shooting an Arab child

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Take Ten: New 10-Minute Plays, Vintage Books, NY, NY, 2003   -

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Something Rare and Wonderful

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Undercurrents

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Tennessee Williams Literary Festival, New Orleans, La     1999

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Walk Into The Sea

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Walking Home

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Planet Earth Multi-Cultural Theatre, Phoenix, Az     1996

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Ollantay theater Magazine, Volume IV, Issue 1, Jackson Heights, NY, 1996   -

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Wetback

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Work of Art, A

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16th Street Theatre, Chicago    

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