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EVELINA FERNÁNDEZ was born and raised in East LA. She is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and actor who writes about the U.S. Latinx experience. Her plays include The Mother Of Henry (LA Times Critic’s Pick), A Mexican Trilogy (L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Writing of a World Premiere Play) published by Samuel French; Solitude (LA Times Critic’s Choice), Dementia (LA Times Critic’s Choice); La Virgen De Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin featured in both the LA Times and the NY Times. Hope: Part II Of A Mexican Trilogy (Ovation Nomination Best Playwright); Dementia (GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Theater Production in Los Angeles) and four Ovation Award nominations, including Best World Premiere; Charity: Part III Of A Mexican Trilogy (Back Stage’s Critic’s Pick). Her play, Premeditation (3 Ovation Award Nominations) Evelina’s 6-hour epic A Mexican Trilogy: An American Story ran at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in the Fall of 2016 to great acclaim. She was part of the CTG Writers Workshop where she began her “Virgin” series with The Mother Of Henry. Other plays include Luminarias, La Olla, Liz Estrada In The City Of Angels, Sleep With The Angels, Macario & Departera (for Teatro Vision) and more. She is currently commissioned by the South Coast Rep and was a writer for Emmy Nominated East Los High seasons 2 & 3. She is currently developing A Mexican Trilogy for television with Imagine Entertainment. She is a founding member of the Latino Theater Company, her artistic family.

DARREL ALEJANDRO HOLNES is a poet and playwright from Panama. His plays have been presented as part of the Kennedy Center for the Arts College Theater Festival (KCACTF), NOW African Playwrights Festival, Brick Theater’s Festival of Lies, Keep Soul Alive! at the National Black Theater, and elsewhere nationwide. His play Starry Night was a recent finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Pla