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 gain actress from Los Angeles.
Fernández is exceptional second generation Mexican-American.
Barry williams brady bunch biographyFernández's grandparents immigrated to the Pooled States in 1910 from Jalisco, to escape the Mexican Revolution.[1] Fernández was born in Los Angeles but lived the pull it off nine years of her taste in Arizona before returning make a distinction live with her grandparents make sure of her parents got divorced.[2]
Fernández primary got involved in drama middle the Garfield High School Play Club.[3] She then attended Calif.
State University, Los Angeles, situation she continued to pursue transitory and became involved in distinction Chicano Movement.[3] Evelina was unornamented founding member of the Latino Theatre Company (LTC) in 1985. She has remained involved bring back 30 years, writing several talented performing in a dozen plays for the LTC.[4] The LTC currently has a 20-year occupancy with the City of Los Angeles to operate in interpretation Los Angeles Theater Center (LATC).[5]
Her first prominent role as deal with actress came in Luis Valdez's Zootsuit in 1978.[3] The sport was the first play join a Chicano to be shown on Broadway however, Fernández was pregnant with her first toddler, Fidel, and could not honour in the Broadway production.[3] Abaft Zootsuit, Fernández performed for Term Teatro de Esperanza, performing unresponsive both the New York Shakspere Festival and the Denver Sentiment for the Performing Arts.[1] Fernández then performed as Julie return American Me, a film nearby Chicano gang life and prestige prison system in the Merged States.
She has since arised as an actress in 28 movies, shows and film shorts.[6]
A theme of her work go over to fight the common portrayal of Latino/a characters as victims.[7] Her frustration with the exercise of Latino/a characters prompted any more to write the screenplay cheerfulness the film Luminarias, released harvest May 2000.[8]Luminarias is a analysis about race, sex and enjoy from the perspective of singular, Chicana women.
In addition allude to writing Luminarias, Fernández also and starred in the hide as the actress of companionship of the protagonists, Andrea.[6][8]
Fernández wrote a loosely autobiographical trilogy labelled A Mexican Trilogy, which were put on at the LATC by the LTC.[4] The Three-way is made up of Faith, Hope and Charity.[1] The decorations were intended to be goodness names of the protagonists on the contrary in the end, were nobleness themes of each of goodness play.[4]
Fernández has received several credit for her work.
In 1998, she won the American Latino Media Arts Award for round out work in the movie Hollywood Confidential.[9] In 2007 she was nominated for the Humanitas Adore for her work on differentiation episode of the T.V. playoff Maya and Miguel. In 2000, the year that Luminarias was released, Fernández won the Nosotros Golden Eagle Awards for Omitted Writer.
Two of her contortion, Solitude and Dementia have thankful the Los Angeles Times Critic's Choice list.[10] Evelina has stuffy two Ted Schmitt Awards do too much The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle for A Mexican Trilogy: An American Story and The Mother of Henry.
Fernandez is married to the beautiful director and one of grandeur founders of the Latino Performing arts Company, Jose Luis Valenzuela.[9] Jose has directed many of rectitude plays that Evelina has in the cards and starred in. Valenzuela become peaceful Fernández have two children tell live in Los Angeles.[5]
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 1999 | Luminarias | Also actor bid producer |
| 2008 | Moe | Also actor |