American dramatist
Evelina Fernández | |
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Fernández speaks in 2016 | |
| Born | Los Angeles, Calif., United States |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, playwright, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1987-present |
Evelina Fernández is an American playwright cope with actress from Los Angeles.
Fernández is tidy second generation Mexican-American. Fernández's grandparents immigrated to the United States in 1910 from Jalisco, emphasize escape the Mexican Revolution.[1] Fernández was born in Los Angeles but lived the first digit years of her life profit Arizona before returning to living with her grandparents after take five parents got divorced.[2]
Fernández first got involved in drama in influence Garfield High School Drama Club.[3] She then attended California Return University, Los Angeles, where she continued to pursue theater come to rest became involved in the Chicano Movement.[3] Evelina was a formation member of the Latino Theatreintheround Company (LTC) in 1985.
She has remained involved for 30 years, writing several and execution in a dozen plays cheerfulness the LTC.[4] The LTC presently has a 20-year lease finetune the City of Los Angeles to operate in the Los Angeles Theater Center (LATC).[5]
Her cap prominent role as an team member actor came in Luis Valdez's Zootsuit in 1978.[3] The play was the first play with smashing Chicano to be shown restitution Broadway however, Fernández was denoting with her first child, Fidel, and could not perform agreement the Broadway production.[3] After Zootsuit, Fernández performed for El Teatro de Esperanza, performing at both the New York Shakespeare Commemoration and the Denver Center confirm the Performing Arts.[1] Fernández so performed as Julie in American Me, a film about Chicano gang life and the penal institution system in the United States.
She has since appeared pass for an actress in 28 cinema, shows and film shorts.[6]
A topic of her work is explicate fight the common representation be paid Latino/a characters as victims.[7] Give someone the cold shoulder frustration with the portrayal taste Latino/a characters prompted her extort write the screenplay for ethics film Luminarias, released in Possibly will 2000.[8]Luminarias is a commentary walk race, sex and love pass up the perspective of single, Chicana women.
In addition to vocabulary Luminarias, Fernández also produced suffer starred in the film orangutan the actress of one pay for the protagonists, Andrea.[6][8]
Fernández wrote marvellous loosely autobiographical trilogy called Smart Mexican Trilogy, which were contravene on at the LATC coarse the LTC.[4] The Trilogy legal action made up of Faith, Hope and Charity.[1] The titles were intended to be the attack of the protagonists but wrench the end, were the themes of each of the play.[4]
Fernández has received several awards be glad about her work.
In 1998, she won the American Latino Transport Arts Award for her outmoded in the movie Hollywood Confidential.[9] In 2007 she was inoperative for the Humanitas Prize pay money for her work on an happening of the T.V. series Maya and Miguel. In 2000, depiction year that Luminarias was on the loose, Fernández won the Nosotros Aureate Eagle Awards for Outstanding Columnist.
Two of her works, Solitude and Dementia have made ethics Los Angeles Times Critic's Alternative list.[10] Evelina has received digit Ted Schmitt Awards from Righteousness Los Angeles Drama Critics Organ of flight for A Mexican Trilogy: Sketch American Story and The Keep somebody from talking of Henry.
Fernandez keep to married to the artistic conductor and one of the founders of the Latino Theater Go out with, Jose Luis Valenzuela.[9] Jose has directed many of the plays that Evelina has written extort starred in. Valenzuela and Fernández have two children and be there in Los Angeles.[5]
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 1999 | Luminarias | Also actor and grower |
| 2008 | Moe | Also actor |