Tanya Saracho

Birth Place: Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico

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Tanya Saracho was born in Sinaloa, México. Named “Best New Playwright of 2010” by Chicago Magazine, she is a resident playwright emerita at Chicago Dramatists, a Goodman Theatre Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media at Columbia College Chicago, the founder of the Ñ Project and founder and former Artistic Director of Teatro Luna: Chicago’s All-Latina Theater. Saracho is a winner of the Ofner Prize given by the Goodman Theater, a recipient of an NEA Distinguished New Play Development Project Grant with About Face Theatre and a 3Arts Artists Award. Saracho was named one of nine national Latino “Luminarios” by Café magazine and given the first “Revolucionario” Award in Theater by the National Museum of Mexican Art. Her plays include Enfrascada; El Nogalar, inspired by The Cherry Orchard (Goodman Theatre/Teatro Vista commission); an adaptation of The House on Mango Street (Steppenwolf commision); Our Lady of the Underpass (Goodman Commission); Surface Day (Steppenwolf/CCHF Commission); Jarred (A Hoodoo Comedy) (Teatro Luna Commission); Kita y Fernanda, and Quita Mitos.Tanya is currently working on two Mellon Foundation commissions for Steppenwolf Theatre, a Goodman theater commission, an adaptation of a Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz play for Oregon Shakespeare Festival which will premier in the 2013 season , and a historical fiction about a transgendered civil war soldier titled The Good Private for About Face Theatre. Directing/Co-Directing credits include: No Roosters In The Desert, Jarred, Lunatic(a)s, S-E-X-Oh!, Maria Chronicles, Generic Latina, SOLO Latinas, SOLO Tu y Dejame Contarte. Tanya is a proud Chicago working actor and a long time member of SAG/AFTRA.

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Denver Center Theatre Company Announces Playwrights For The 18th Annual Colorado New Play Summit

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Primary Stages Reveals Cast for Theresa Rebeck's DIG

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FADE Comes to the National Theatre of Parramatta

Riverside’s National Theatre of Parramatta will present the Australian premiere of Fade, playing at Parramatta’s Riverside Theatres from Thursday 27th July to Saturday 5th August. 

Erin Daley Appointed Interim Artistic Director of Primary Stages

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Roger Q. Mason's THE PINK to Receive Reading with Primary Stages This Spring

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Louisa Jacobson, Ugo Chukwu & More to Star in Sarah Einspanier's LUNCH BUNCH at PlayCo & Clubbed Thumb

PlayCo has announced the cast and creative team of Sarah Einspanier’s Lunch Bunch, a playful comedy surrounding a group of public defenders’ occasionally outsized emotional investment in the meals they share, directed by Tara Ahmadinejad and presented with Clubbed Thumb.

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