Free Admission WOMAN ON FIRE by Marisela Treviño Orta Torn between the law of man and a higher law, Juanita must decide whether to put her husband's military career at risk by giving a ghost a proper burial. SF Playhouse - 536 Sutter Street, San Francisco, 94102
About the Playwright: Poet and playwright Marisela Trevino Orta graduated from Southwestern University in Georgetown and received an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. While studying poetry at USF she began collaborating with El Teatro Jornalero!, a theatre company comprised of Latino immigrants. As ETJ's Resident Poet Marisela wrote poetry ...Read More
Free Admission WOMAN ON FIRE by Marisela Treviño Orta Torn between the law of man and a higher law, Juanita must decide whether to put her husband's military career at risk by giving a ghost a proper burial. SF Playhouse - 536 Sutter Street, San Francisco, 94102
About the Playwright: Poet and playwright Marisela Trevino Orta graduated from Southwestern University in Georgetown and received an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. While studying poetry at USF she began collaborating with El Teatro Jornalero!, a theatre company comprised of Latino immigrants. As ETJ's Resident Poet Marisela wrote poetry in response to their work. She also translated their plays for English audience members. Her first play, BRAIDED SORROW, was included in the 2005 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the Ford Amphitheatre's 2006 Summer Reading Series, and won UC Irvine's 2006 Chicano/Latino Literary Prize in drama. Currently, Ms. Orta is Marin Theatre Company's Resident Playwright and working with MTC to teach playwriting to youth at nearby San Rafael High School. She is also one of the founding editors of Switchback, the official literary journal of the University of San Francisco's MFA in Writing program and recipient of Naropa Summer Writing program's Zora Neal Hurston Scholarship. Ms. Orta's poetry has appeared in BorderSenses, Double Room, 26: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics and Traverse.
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