A Tucson Pastorela

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Milta Ortiz is a playwright from the Bay Area, who now calls Tucson home. She recently finished her play Sanctuary and a few poems at Djerassi Resident Artist program. She wrote and directed Solving for X for the Working Classroom in Albuquerque. Her play, Más was produced at at Su Teatro in Denver March 2017, co-produced in the Bay Area by Laney College March, 2016 and Ubuntu Theater Project May 2016. Más premiered at Borderlands Theater in September 2015 and was nominated for an American Theatre Critics/Steinberg New Play Award and Citations, and a Tucson Mac award for best drama and touring Arizona Universities. Más was developed at Borderlands Theater through an NNPN residency, selected to the Latino Theater Commons Carnaval play festival and made the Kilroy List. Other produced plays include 20^th Annual A Tucson Pastorela, Sonoran Shadows (a shadow play,) 19th Annual A Tucson Pastorela, Disengaged, 18^th Annual A Tucson Pastorela, Fleeing Blue and Scatter My Red Underwear. Milta worked extensively as a teaching artist and received individual artist grants to write, develop and produce her solo work in the Bay Area. She teaches theater at Pima Community College. Milta earned an M.F.A. from Northwestern University’s Writing for the Screen and Stage program and a Creative Writing B.A. from San Francisco State University. She is a proud mom to bubbly preschooler.

 is a theatre artist, musician and educator. He has worked with various companies including El Teatro Campesino, Teatro Vision, The Magic, Campo Santo in California; Steppenwolf and American Theatre Company in Chicago; and Arizona Theatre Company locally. Some of his directing credits include: MAS, BARRIO STORIES, SONORAN SHADOWS, IN THE RED AND BROWN WATER, CELBRITY ROW, THE MINSANTHROPE, PUTO, DEATH AND THE MAIDEN, and ZOOT SUIT.  Marc founded the Hybrid Performance Experiment (The HyPE) known for site specific performances on Bay Area Rapid Transit trains . Marc was a member of the spoken word troupe, Chicano Messengers of Spoken Word with whom he co-authorded the play, Fear of a Brown Planet. He fronted the band, Grito Serpentino, a spoken word and music ensemble that toured throughout the country and produced two albums. Marc was a program director at Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, an arts center in San Jose, California and at the historic, Galería de la Raza, in San Francisco. He’s taught acting at San Jose State University’s department of Television, Radio, Film and Theatre. He currently teaches at Pima Community College and runs Borderlands Theater.