I'm queer - and queer, to me, is not being stuck in a binary and being kind of fluid.
I always have something big enough to say as a playwright. It's storytelling.
I'm very conscious of who I work with. Because I want to develop and nurture my writers so they can have their own shows, take on whatever is next for them.
There is no 'generic' Latina.
A lot of the time, because we don't have many Latinx scenarios on the landscape, not just in television or film and other media, we haven't gotten the chance to tell our story from our point of view.
For so long, the narrative - I'm speaking for Latinx - we've been invisible, the ones cleaning and taking care of your kids and doing your lawns.
In lots of ways, I've been trying to tell stories this way since I started writing plays: a female-centered story with queer, Latinx gaze.
To me, 'Kita y Fernanda' is very much an American story, and I know some people are going to think it's a Latina story, but it's about shifting people's paradigms and views of what it is to be American.
When I got to Scotland, I signed up on a site called Meetup. It's like these group things you can do - a poetry reading, a hike, whatever.
Young men and women of color get told 'no' by so many people. But just listen to your inner voice. Amplify it. Make it strong!
I feel like progress will be made in the landscape of Latino influence when we get to tell those murky, real, close-to-life narratives.
I want to stay in Chicago.
Raul Castillo was my first high school boyfriend.
When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from.
People in L.A. think I'm insane to go back to Chicago during the winter. It's because I love my apartment and fleece leggings and my friends.
I have 16 plays, and we don't ever do subtitles. You can't do subtitles in the theater, so I was like, 'I'm not gonna do subtitles.' You'll never lose the story. There might be a little joke that you might miss, but you'll never miss the story, even in the Spanglish of it.
It's mountains. The air is crisp. It's peaceful. You don't get spring break in Guanajuato.
What I notice a lot about millennials is that they have agency over their sexuality.
The big, radical thing that I'm trying to do is to portray Latinas as complex human beings.
I remember 'Resurrection Boulevard.' It was on for such a brief moment, but they were trying to do a good, Latino, Mexican-American family with a patriarch.
