Dolores Díaz is a Tejana playwright originally from the border city of Laredo, Texas. Her newest play, Rehearsal, runs Oct 21-23 at The Frontier in Chicago with NOMADs Art Collective. The piece premiered August 2019 in the Steppenwolf Garage as part of Bechdel Fest 7 with Broken Nose Theatre (Chicago, IL). The Curse of Giles Corey received a workshop production at Northwestern University as part of their 2019 new play showcase. Man of the People was produced by Three Cat Productions in October 2018. Also in October, Nothing Without a Company (Chicago, IL) premiered Appreciation Day; MOJOAA (Raleigh, NC) presented the play the same month. Performing Arts Studio presented Dolores’s work devised using Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed methodologies as part of their Forum Theatre’s 2018-2019 season (Chicago, IL). Dolores was also a finalist for the 2019/2020 Goodman Playwrights Unit. Dolores’s adaptation of Sir Conan Doyle’s The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle world premiered in 2017 with Three Cat Productions as part of the Holiday Radio Show, which was recommended in the Tribune’s list of top 40 Holiday entertainment for 2017. A Truthful Christmas and Uncomfortable Positions premiered at The Vortex in October 2014 as part of the 14-48 Projects in Austin, TX. Border Grammar was produced by Teatro Chicano de Laredo in 2010. From 2015-2017, Dolores served as Producer for Teatro Vivo’s annual Austin Latino New Play Festival. Dolores is a graduate of Northwestern University’s MFA Writing Program for the Stage and Screen.
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