The Truth About Lipgloss!!!!
Ja ja ja… That’s a misleading headline, but here’s a interview I did on Vocalo.org about performance, environmental racism in Chicago, and why I’ve switched to organic lip gloss: Coya Paz and Jerry from PERRO.mp3 on Vocalo.org 89.5
In Which I Confess, In Verse, To Being an Awful Person
Last month, Nina Corwin invited me to participate in a poetry reading about Consumer Culture at Woman Made Gallery. I don’t really write much about consumer culture, partly because I’m not sure what to say about it. I love consumer culture – shopping and lip gloss are genuine passions of mine- but of course, I [...]
The S.A.B., the P.A.B., and the Fetal Pig
Last month, I performed a piece at 2nd Story, and it is now available in podcast form! Listen online on their website, or download it on iTunes. Here’s the blurb: Fourteen year old Coya has spent her whole life trying not to emulate her activist parents, but finds this almost impossible when biology class collides with [...]
I <3 FB.
EXCITING NEWS, INTERNET!!!!!!!!! The Free Street show I’ve been working on just got extended for one more weekend. That’s TWO more chances to catch LOL OMG WTFAY #Distracted! Friday, March 30 at 7pm Saturday, March 31 at 2pm. Tickets at FreeStreet.org This is a very funny piece about the impact of social media on relationships [...]
Best Hair Day Ever
Amores, I’m sure I have many good qualities. I know a lot of knock-knock jokes, for example. And I laugh all of the time at the stupidest things (Adam Sandler movies or the aforementioned knock-knock jokes). And I am, despite routine crabbiness about how-come-people-don’t-care-more-about-injustice, a genuinely hopeful person. But I’m also rolling in the bad [...]
Quick n’ Dirty Tour Guides Info
Amores, in case you don’t want to read my long post about Tour Guides (below, and totally brilliant, just saying), here’s the short version. Tour Guides. Opens Friday. Worth Seeing. Tickets and Information at guildcomplex.org.
The Americans Are Coming!
For the past year, I’ve been asking random strangers the same handful of questions: 1.) Are you an American? 2.) What does it mean to be an American? 3.) If you could tell 100 people one thing about being an American, what would it be? 4.) Fill in the blank: The Americans are __________. For [...]
For The Death Penalty? Oppose THIS Execution.
On September 21, the State of Georgia plans to execute Troy Davis. Now, I know it is no surprise to anyone reading this blog that I am deeply and 100% opposed to the death penalty. This is a position (like being a pacifist and a vegetarian) that I came to via my Christian values, and it [...]
The Americans
The Americans is in full swing, and yes – totally behind schedule. SOMEDAY I’ll work on a play that’s finished being written before we open! In the meantime, we’re in residence at the DCA Incubator and blogging about the process. Check it out here: http://www.dcatheater.org/blog/entry/flash_interviews/
I Love You! I M’eh You… I Love You! I M’eh You…
I am in an “It’s Complicated” relationship with L’Oreal LeGloss. About a month ago, my friend Dyan sent me a Twitter telling me that the new L’Oreal LeGloss was a “lip gloss revelation.” (I think there may even have been an “OMG” in there as well.) My friend is a master of looking cute on [...]
Sigh….
Amores, I’m STILL writing letters to Target and STILL waiting for a considered response. Here’s the latest. I hope you’re still with me. And if you are, don’t forget to send a letter of your own: gregg.steinhafel at target.com, denise.may at target.com, and guest.relations at target.com. Hola Target, I don’t know about you, but this [...]
The sound of a bubble bursting…
The news from Target this week is that talks with the HRC over donating money “broke down” when Target decided it needed more time to think about what political donations mean. I wish they’d started thinking about that BEFORE they donated money to MN Forward! (And anyway… I’m not a huge fan of the HRC.) [...]
Third Letter to Target
Still no answers from Target. I wish they loved me as much as I love them… Sigh… Anyway, here’s my third letter. Dear Esteemed Target Bigwigs, This is my 3rd letter to you. I don’t mean to seem like a deranged stalker or someone with too much time on my hands, but I really want [...]
Why, Target, Why?
Last week I posted my letter to Target, asking them to counter their support for anti-gay political candidates with actual dollars to LGBT friendly organizations. I got back a totally douche-y form letter that answered none of my concerns, so I wrote back. My letter is below, and I encourage you to send one of [...]
The Americans
I started my new project today! The Americans is a piece about race and American identity during our current immigration crisis. I’m creating the piece based on interviews, community workshops, and archival documents (which includes newspapers, the Constitution, letters, etc). A big 20-30 minute chunk will be developed in collaboration with Halcyon Theatre* for the [...]
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 [...]
Ch-ch-changes.
So far, 2009 has been a strange, strange year – wonderful in many ways. In January, I gave birth to my daughter, and I spend every day marveling at how a human being can be so tiny, so sweet, and so utterly delightful. She is lots of fun, with a beautiful crooked smile and lots [...]
As American As [????]
At a brainstorming workshop for Restaurant Spanish (the show I’m developing with a team of Core Artists from my beloved Teatro Luna), we found ourselves asking a lot of questions about America. And Americans. And what it means to be Americanized. Which got me thinking about Thanksgiving, which has to be the most significant of [...]
Hola Khevre! This is an exciting time for Teatro Luna. Our show, JARRED: A HOODOO COMEDY goes into previews on October 31st – the perfect day for a play about urban witchcraft and love spells gone awry. I caught a sneak peek at the show over the weekend and it is going to be a [...]
Hola Cariños,I’m laying low, determined to finish the dissertation before starting a full-time job teaching performance at The Theater School of DePaul University. But I’m looking forward to the following events: -The reading of Teatro Luna’s new show, JARRED: A HOODOO COMEDY (by Tanya Saracho) at the Goodman Theater’s Latino Theater Festival on August 13th. [...]
Here’s the news: Teatro Luna won Two Non-Equity Jeffs for our production of MACHOS: Outstanding Ensemble and Best New Work! I’ve been working on a new show for the Guild Complex’s Poetry/Performance Incubator project. It is called TOUR GUIDES and it is an inside look at Chicago lives. I’m pretty excited about it – the [...]
KICK OFF THE SUMMER WITH HOT GUYS!!!!!!!
Amores, I’m so excited! MACHOS IS BACK!!!!! But only for ONE WEEK, so catch it while you can at the Center on Halsted, June 4-8. For tickets and information, please visit Teatro Luna’s website. In other news, school’s almost out and I’m looking ahead to a teaching free summer!!! I’ll miss my students, but here’s [...]
