raquel almazan

interdisciplinary artist, facilitator and activist. (M.F.A. – Playwriting, Columbia University). Her eclectic career spans original multi-media solo performances, playwriting, devising, dramaturgy and filmmaking. Almazan’s work has been featured in new york city- including off-broadway, throughout the united states and internationally in greece, italy, slovenia, colombia, chile, guatemala, canada and sweden; including several of her plays within the (Latin is America play cycle) writing bi-lingual plays in dedication to latin american countries. She has been awarded professional development residencies with bric arts, the eugene o’neill center playwrights conference, the playwrights’ center and chelsea factory. recipient of the map fund, doris duke grant, NYC women’s fund, NYSCA grant and national association of latino arts and culture grant, kennedy center’s latinidad Award, kate neal kinley playwriting fellowship and the LGBTQ arch and bruce brown foundation playwriting prize. Selected plays include: La Paloma Prisoner (upcoming world premiere 2023. 2020 kilroys list, workshops: the signature theatre, la mama, the lark, INTAR and labyrinth theatre company, WPI- stockholm). La Migra Taco Truck (off-broadway theatre row). When I Came Home (pregones- PRTT) LA NEGRA (workshop: bric arts/reading: lincoln center- classical theatre of harlem) Does that Feel Good to you My Lark?: A Doll’s House Adaptation (bushwick starr reading/new georges – audrey residency). CAFÉ (workshop: columbia university/reading- the kennedy center). Almazan is artistic director of la lucha arts dedicated to producing works in collaboration with social movements. TV Performance Credits: law & order: SVU, limitless and the blacklist. She teaches playwriting at marymount manhattan college and augsburg university through The playwrights center. Almazan is the co-president of the board of directors of indie space/the independent theatre fund. www.raquelalmazan.com