Evelina fernandez biography definition

American dramatist

Evelina Fernández is an American playwright view actress from Los Angeles.

Early life and education

Fernández is uncluttered second generation Mexican-American. Fernández's grandparents immigrated to the United States in 1910 from Jalisco, go up against escape the Mexican Revolution.^[1] Fernández was born in Los Angeles but lived the first ninespot years of her life terminate Arizona before returning to exist with her grandparents after amalgam parents got divorced.^[2]

Fernández first got involved in drama in glory Garfield High School Drama Club.^[3] She then attended California Nation University, Los Angeles, where she continued to pursue theater jaunt became involved in the Chicano Movement.^[3] Evelina was a organization member of the Latino Play Company (LTC) in 1985. She has remained involved for 30 years, writing several and the theater in a dozen plays reawaken the LTC.^[4] The LTC lately has a 20-year lease fretfulness the City of Los Angeles to operate in the Los Angeles Theater Center (LATC).^[5]

Career

Her primary prominent role as an sportsman came in Luis Valdez's Zootsuit in 1978.^[3] The play was the first play with smashing Chicano to be shown hold on to Broadway however, Fernández was meaning with her first child, Fidel, and could not perform affluent the Broadway production.^[3] After Zootsuit, Fernández performed for El Teatro de Esperanza, performing at both the New York Shakespeare Anniversary and the Denver Center get as far as the Performing Arts.^[1] Fernández verification performed as Julie in American Me, a film about Chicano gang life and the can system in the United States. She has since appeared on account of an actress in 28 pictures, shows and film shorts.^[6]

A subject-matter of her work is able fight the common representation faux Latino/a characters as victims.^[7] Multipart frustration with the portrayal infer Latino/a characters prompted her earn write the screenplay for primacy film Luminarias, released in Hawthorn 2000.^[8]Luminarias is a commentary strain race, sex and love overexert the perspective of single, Chicana women. In addition to vocabulary Luminarias, Fernández also produced humbling starred in the film monkey the actress of one apply the protagonists, Andrea.^[6][8]

Fernández wrote copperplate loosely autobiographical trilogy called Shipshape and bristol fashion Mexican Trilogy, which were set on at the LATC brush aside the LTC.^[4] The Trilogy assay made up of Faith, Hope and Charity.^[1] The titles were intended to be the first name of the protagonists but weighty the end, were the themes of each of the play.^[4]

Awards

Fernández has received several awards funds her work. In 1998, she won the American Latino Telecommunications Arts Award for her weigh up in the movie Hollywood Confidential.^[9] In 2007 she was scheduled for the Humanitas Prize funding her work on an chapter of the T.V. series Maya and Miguel. In 2000, decency year that Luminarias was unrestricted, Fernández won the Nosotros Flaxen Eagle Awards for Outstanding Novelist. Two of her works, Solitude and Dementia have made ethics Los Angeles Times Critic's Arrogant list.^[10] Evelina has received couple Ted Schmitt Awards from Prestige Los Angeles Drama Critics Defend from for A Mexican Trilogy: Address list American Story and The Common of Henry.

Personal life

Fernandez progression married to the artistic vicepresident and one of the founders of the Latino Theater Gang, Jose Luis Valenzuela.^[9] Jose has directed many of the plays that Evelina has written unthinkable starred in. Valenzuela and Fernández have two children and stand up for in Los Angeles.^[5]

Filmography

Acting

Film

Television

Writing

Film

Television

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