Show Bio Templates – CCC 2021

Angela Estela

Writer

Carmelita Maldonado

Writer

Claudia Duran

Writer

Elvia Rubalcava

Writer

Maria G. Martinez

Writer

Sylvia Chavez

Writer

Vilma Villela

Writer

Produced by 

Claudia Duran

Bio
Claudia Duran
Claudia Duran has written, directed, and produced since 2005. She co-founded Chicanas Cholas y Chisme in March 2012 at Casa0101 for Womyn's Herstory Month. Please Visit: www.facebook.com/cholasychisme Claudia enjoys sharing her love of filmmaking and theater by working with under represented communities throughout Los Angeles. Duran wrote, directed, and produced feature Sofia for Now, which screened at national and international film festivals. Over the years she has received awards for: Up And Coming Filmmaker, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Emerging Filmmaker, and Best Short Film. Theater Credits Include: After 4 Play, A Force to Be Reckoned With, Always Running, Art Share One Acts, Brown&Out Fest, Chicanas Cholas y Chisme, Children of Pelops, Drunk Girl, Eastside Queer Stories Festival, Free Los Tres, Frida Kahlo Theater 10 Minute Plays, Madea, Occupy the Heart, Short + Sweet Hollywood, Sp!t, Tango. BFA Carnegie Mellon University. To view more samples of her work please visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFWPmTARUhs http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2530921/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Produced by 

Elvia Susana Rubalcava

Bio
Elvia Susana Rubalcava
ELVIA SUSANA RUBALCAVA is a writer, director, producer, and content creator. Rubalcava has written, directed, and assistant produced the past six years with Chicanas, Cholas, y Chisme. Her play Fluffy Homegirls toured New Orleans & Northern California, as well as her first commissioned play Our Voz. Her plays Letters to My Dead Lovers (2018), Homegirls from el Otro Lado (2019), and Fluffy Homegirls (2019) were selected for the Teatro Frida Kahlo Theater’s 10-minute Play Festival where she also directed Breaking the Binary (2019). Her poetry has been published in Mujeres de Maiz Flor y Canto Zines, Seeds of Resistance Flor y Canto, and others. Her short story “Palomas” was recently published in Our Stories: A collection of personal narratives a Latina anthology. She co-directed Teatro Moz (2016) and Drunk Girl (2015) at Casa 0101 and is a co-founder of Las Tres a theater collective aimed at developing and promoting writers, directors, and producers.

Directors Include

Carmelita Maldonado, Claudia Duran, Diana Romo, Elvia Rubalcava, Jacqueline Quido, Maria G. Martinez, Vilma Villela

Starring

Adrian Fernandez, Blanca Melchor, Carla Valentine, Ceasar Souza, Elena Campbell-Martinez, Gabriel Romero, Gerardo Villa-Lobos, Ginna Diaz, Henry Madrid, Jacqueline Castañeda, Laura Vallejo, Maricella Ibarra, Matt Callahan, Leslie Ramos, Michaela Hammam, Nitzya Estrada Hammam, Rachel Gonzalez Martinez, Raquel Sanchez, Ricardo Lopez, Rosemary Soto Rodriguez, Sylvia Chavez, William Jaramillo

Technical Designer 

Santi Sámano