168: Tina D'Elia : SF actor, teacher and one woman show writer/performer

https://instagram.com/tinadeliasf TINA  D’ELIA (She/Her) is a Bay Area lesbian/queer, mixed-race Mexican artist  and small business owner, teacher, and coach and an award-winning solo  performer, actor, co-screenwriter, and casting director. D’Elia is also  the program director of the LezWritesBTQ program with 3Girls Theatre.  Tina is honored to be performing her 4th solo show Overlooked Latina,  directed by Mary Guzmán and developed with David Ford, at The Marsh (San  Francisco) this month. Her next shows are October 27th and 29th.  D’Elia’s solo show: The Rita Hayworth of this Generation, won “Best of  Fringe” (2015) and won “Best of Sold-Out Shows” at the San Francisco  Fringe Festival (2015). She is currently developing her fifth solo show,  The Break-Up! A Queer Latina Torch Song, directed by Mary Guzmán.  D’Elia has presented her solo shows in a variety of venues including:  The National Queer Arts Festival, The Theater Offensive (Boston), The  Marsh (SF/Berkeley), The Marsh Rising Star, Stage Werx, Highways  Performance Space (LA), Crazy Nannies (NY), LezWrites, Women on the Way  Festival, and more. D’Elia was recognized in Go Magazine 100 Women We  Love (2019) and in the leading national lesbian Curve magazine Power  List of 2017. D’Elia is the recipient of the Best Actress Award and the  Diversity Casting Award (2017) from the Equality International Film  Festival. D’Elia received the: The Audience Award at Frameline33 (2009),  as a co-screenwriter of the short film Lucha, also nominated for the  prestigious Iris Prize (2009).  Her feature film/television/webseries  credits include: The Pursuit of Happyness, Knife Fight, Guitar Man,  Earth Mama, Trauma (NBC), Sense8 (Netflix), Dyke Central (Amazon),  Transfinite, and Assigned Female at Birth (YouTube). Follower her on  Instagram/Twitter: tinadeliasf, Tina D’Elia on FaceBook. Her websites: tinadelia.com and tinadeliaconsulting.com.