ADELINA ANTHONY'S BIO
Adelina's appearances on the university circuit are numerous thanks to the
fundraising efforts and support of student organizations and
Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender, Chicano/Latino/Ethnic,
Women's/Feminist/Gender, and Performance Studies programs and
departments. Adelina has performed at campuses like UC Riverside, UC Davis, UTEP, Princeton University, UCLA, CSUN, Stanford University, Smith College, CU Boulder, Wesleyan University, DePauw University, Oberlin College, St. Could State University, CSU Pomona, Pasadena City College, UTSA (via Trinity University), and UC Santa Cruz.
An allgo supported artist, Adelina also performs and workshops consistently in Austin, Texas. In Austin she has performed to sold-out audiences at the historic Victory Grill and the newly renovated Mexican American Cultural Center. In addition, she has participated three times in the National Queer Arts Festival in San Francisco. Some other venues where Adelina has worked over the many years include Teatro Dallas (including two international festivals in Peru and Ecuador), Santa Monica's Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles' Celebration Theatre, San Francisco's Theatre Rhinoceros, San Jóse's Teatro Visión, San Antonio's Esperanza Cultural Center, New York's WOW Café and Teatro LA TEA, The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's The Renberg Theater and Davidson/Valentini Theater, and Dallas' Bath House Cultural Center, The Undermain, and Cara Mia Theater Co. (where she served as founding artistic director).
As a director/producer, Adelina has collaborated on over 20 productions/or workshop productions. During her short tenure at Cara Mia, Adelina produced/ directed the company's inaugural play: Shadow of a Man by Cherríe Moraga. A year later, she followed this work with
Milcha Sánchez Scott's Latina, a play that examines the lives of undocumented domestic workers. Eventually, Adelina would return to Cara Mia to direct a workshop production of The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea; a production that would garner her Best Director, Best
Production, and Best Actor nominations and titles. This play was also produced/directed in Los Angeles, and finally at Stanford University where it received its' World Premiere. At Stanford, Adelina co-directed with Cherríe Moraga and reprised the role of Luna. Last year, Adelina directed D'Lo's workshop production of Ramble-Ations at New World Theater; the production was then presented at the 1st National Asian American Theater Festival in NYC. Adelina is currently attached as a director to Leslie Connelly's Girl in Da Trunk, a new solo work in the making that will premiere in L.A.
As an educator/cultural activist, Adelina has over 14 years of experience mentoring and instructing on political teatro and acting/performance/writing to youth of color to lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender communities of color and university students. In 1997, while in Dallas, she conceived and implemented Cara Mia's CAST program (Chicano Academy for Summer Theatre). She also initiated touring educational programs in the public schools funded by the Office of Cultural Affairs in Dallas via the Neighborhood Touring Programs. After a short stint in NYC, where she participated with Marta Lucía and Angie Cruz in the formation of Women In Literature & Letters (a women of color centered group), Adelina finally landed in Los Angeles. She participated in the co-founding of MACHA Theatre Co. and MY LUCHA. In 2002, Adelina was selected as one of the national queer activist of the year by the Los Angeles based Tentaciones
Magazine. Adelina co-designed and led community projects around queer and undocumented immigrant youth that were awarded funding by the ASTRAEA Foundation. She has also taught teatro in the housing communities for San Francisco's Mexican Museum's educational programs.
Currently she leads workshops through a project she dreamed of implementing years ago: TEATRO Q (a safe space where lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/two-spirited people of color explore various aspects of theater arts/performance). Supported by a City of Los Angeles Artist-in-Residence grant at the Southern California Library in South Central Los Angeles, the TEATRO Q project runs throughout the year.
As a writer, Adelina works in different genres: solo playwriting, stand-up comedy, short story, and poetry. More often than not, she blurs or experiments with genre boundaries. Some of her poetry has been published in Texas, Germany, and California. She currently maintains a cyberpoesía blog on her myspace.com/adelinaanthony, where she workshops a poem a week during this entire year. Her exploration of short-story erotica won her recognition as one of the writers featured in Best American Erotica Series of 2002. Before entering graduate school in the fall of 2003, Adelina was selected as a PEN USA Emerging Voices Rosenthal Fellow. Most recently, her first person narrative, "La Mamasota," was anthologized in the 2007 Harper Collins' Fifteen Candles. As for newspaper, online websites, and magazines, Adelina penned several articles for the former Solloella.com, and several op-eds for The Progressive Media Project. In 2006, she conducted an interview with Cherríe Moraga that appeared in Bomb Magazine. And most recently, Colorlines Magazine solicited a few humor columns on race, politics, and sexuality.
As a daughter, Adelina gives her mother and ancestors gratitude and mil gracias for guiding her and allowing her to practice conscious art making and spirit walking. With their blessing, over the next few years she will continue to develop new comedic works like Jotalogues and La Sad Girl; and more importantly, a new series of dramatic solo works that begin with Bruising for Besos (currently in workshop production mode). She has also begun to transition back into
independent film work as an actor, and currently played lead roles in Masami Kawai's G Lee & Me and Linda Chavez's The One Wayz. Adelina is currently developing her own first short and full-length screenplays as a writer/director.
departments. Adelina has performed at campuses like UC Riverside, UC Davis, UTEP, Princeton University, UCLA, CSUN, Stanford University, Smith College, CU Boulder, Wesleyan University, DePauw University, Oberlin College, St. Could State University, CSU Pomona, Pasadena City College, UTSA (via Trinity University), and UC Santa Cruz.
An allgo supported artist, Adelina also performs and workshops consistently in Austin, Texas. In Austin she has performed to sold-out audiences at the historic Victory Grill and the newly renovated Mexican American Cultural Center. In addition, she has participated three times in the National Queer Arts Festival in San Francisco. Some other venues where Adelina has worked over the many years include Teatro Dallas (including two international festivals in Peru and Ecuador), Santa Monica's Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles' Celebration Theatre, San Francisco's Theatre Rhinoceros, San Jóse's Teatro Visión, San Antonio's Esperanza Cultural Center, New York's WOW Café and Teatro LA TEA, The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's The Renberg Theater and Davidson/Valentini Theater, and Dallas' Bath House Cultural Center, The Undermain, and Cara Mia Theater Co. (where she served as founding artistic director).
As a director/producer, Adelina has collaborated on over 20 productions/or workshop productions. During her short tenure at Cara Mia, Adelina produced/ directed the company's inaugural play: Shadow of a Man by Cherríe Moraga. A year later, she followed this work with
Milcha Sánchez Scott's Latina, a play that examines the lives of undocumented domestic workers. Eventually, Adelina would return to Cara Mia to direct a workshop production of The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea; a production that would garner her Best Director, Best
Production, and Best Actor nominations and titles. This play was also produced/directed in Los Angeles, and finally at Stanford University where it received its' World Premiere. At Stanford, Adelina co-directed with Cherríe Moraga and reprised the role of Luna. Last year, Adelina directed D'Lo's workshop production of Ramble-Ations at New World Theater; the production was then presented at the 1st National Asian American Theater Festival in NYC. Adelina is currently attached as a director to Leslie Connelly's Girl in Da Trunk, a new solo work in the making that will premiere in L.A.
As an educator/cultural activist, Adelina has over 14 years of experience mentoring and instructing on political teatro and acting/performance/writing to youth of color to lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender communities of color and university students. In 1997, while in Dallas, she conceived and implemented Cara Mia's CAST program (Chicano Academy for Summer Theatre). She also initiated touring educational programs in the public schools funded by the Office of Cultural Affairs in Dallas via the Neighborhood Touring Programs. After a short stint in NYC, where she participated with Marta Lucía and Angie Cruz in the formation of Women In Literature & Letters (a women of color centered group), Adelina finally landed in Los Angeles. She participated in the co-founding of MACHA Theatre Co. and MY LUCHA. In 2002, Adelina was selected as one of the national queer activist of the year by the Los Angeles based Tentaciones
Magazine. Adelina co-designed and led community projects around queer and undocumented immigrant youth that were awarded funding by the ASTRAEA Foundation. She has also taught teatro in the housing communities for San Francisco's Mexican Museum's educational programs.
Currently she leads workshops through a project she dreamed of implementing years ago: TEATRO Q (a safe space where lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/two-spirited people of color explore various aspects of theater arts/performance). Supported by a City of Los Angeles Artist-in-Residence grant at the Southern California Library in South Central Los Angeles, the TEATRO Q project runs throughout the year.
As a writer, Adelina works in different genres: solo playwriting, stand-up comedy, short story, and poetry. More often than not, she blurs or experiments with genre boundaries. Some of her poetry has been published in Texas, Germany, and California. She currently maintains a cyberpoesía blog on her myspace.com/adelinaanthony, where she workshops a poem a week during this entire year. Her exploration of short-story erotica won her recognition as one of the writers featured in Best American Erotica Series of 2002. Before entering graduate school in the fall of 2003, Adelina was selected as a PEN USA Emerging Voices Rosenthal Fellow. Most recently, her first person narrative, "La Mamasota," was anthologized in the 2007 Harper Collins' Fifteen Candles. As for newspaper, online websites, and magazines, Adelina penned several articles for the former Solloella.com, and several op-eds for The Progressive Media Project. In 2006, she conducted an interview with Cherríe Moraga that appeared in Bomb Magazine. And most recently, Colorlines Magazine solicited a few humor columns on race, politics, and sexuality.
As a daughter, Adelina gives her mother and ancestors gratitude and mil gracias for guiding her and allowing her to practice conscious art making and spirit walking. With their blessing, over the next few years she will continue to develop new comedic works like Jotalogues and La Sad Girl; and more importantly, a new series of dramatic solo works that begin with Bruising for Besos (currently in workshop production mode). She has also begun to transition back into
independent film work as an actor, and currently played lead roles in Masami Kawai's G Lee & Me and Linda Chavez's The One Wayz. Adelina is currently developing her own first short and full-length screenplays as a writer/director.