Coya Paz

What Do Beverly and Dope Have in Common? ME!

What Do Beverly and Dope Have in Common? ME!

Amores, the month of April is going to be extra hectic and extra awesome, with back-to-back openings for two different shows. First, I’m extra-excited to be bringing TOUR GUIDES to the Beverly Arts Center, THIS FRIDAY (April 5), for THREE SHOWS ONLY! I hope those all-caps impart a sense of urgency, because this is my [...]


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Podcast! Talking About Chicago, Theatre, History, and My Job

I haven’t been posting much because I’ve been busy with things like writing a new play, chasing my two year old, and actually working. At my actual J-O-B. We’re hosting a Symposium on Chicago Theatre History: Past, Present, and Future that starts this week. I’ll be honest. The whole thing has been kind of a… [...]


Talking about (shhh…) R-A-C-E

In February 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder said this: Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards… By creating what will admittedly be, at first, artificial opportunities to engage one [...]


Official!

I am now an Artistic Associate with Teatro Americano. I think I may be their first one? I’ll be directing/developing two projects with them over the coming year. The first is already in progress: Meet Juan(it0) Doe is a piece their youth ensemble has been creating under the direction of Ricardo Gamboa (who is also [...]