Rachel Lynett (she/they) – Writer of “Oranges”

Rachel is a queer Afro-Latine playwright, producer, and teaching artist. Their plays have been featured at  San Diego Rep, Magic Theatre, Mirrorbox Theatre, Laboratory Theatre of Florida, Barrington Stage Company, Theatre Lab, Theatre Prometheus, Florida Studio Theatre, Laughing Pig Theatre Company, Capital Repertory Theatre, Teatro Espejo, the Kennedy Center Page to Stage festival, Theatresquared, Equity Library Theatre, Chicago, Talk Back Theatre, American Stage Theatre Company, Indiana University at Bloomington, Edgewood College, and Orlando Shakespeare Theatre. Their plays  Last Night and HE DID IT made the 2020 Kilroy’s List and their play, White People by the Lake was a 2022 Blue Ink Award finalist.  Rachel Lynett is also the 2021 recipient of the Yale Drama Prize for their play, Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry (You Too August Wilson), and the  2021 recipient of the National Latinx Playwriting award for their play, Black Mexican.

Jesús I. Valles (they/them) – Writer of “Llermo”

Jesús is a queer Mexican immigrant, educator, storyteller, and performer based in Austin, Texas, originally from Cd. Juarez, México. Jesús holds a Master’s in Communication Studies from California State University, Long Beach, with a focus on performance and qualitative research methods. Their research with Latina domestic workers in Los Angeles has been presented at the National Communication Association, The Western States Communication Association, and the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Jesús is a 2019 Lambda Literary fellow, a 2019 Walter E. Dakin Playwriting Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a Idyllwild Writers Week poetry fellow, a 2018 Tin House Scholar, a 2018 Undocupoets fellow, and a fellow of The Poetry Foundation’s 2018 Poetry Incubator. As an actor, Jesús is the recipient of four B. Iden Payne awards including Outstanding Actor in Theater for Youth in 2016 and 2017 and Outstanding Original Script and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama in 2018 for their solo show, (Un)Documents. They have been featured in multiple productions in Austin, TX. with companies such as Teatro Vivo, Shrewd Productions, The VORTEX, Lucky Chaos, GenEnCo, and Scottish Rite Theatre. Jesús is currently working toward a MFA in Playwriting at Brown University 

Oliver Alvarez aka Monarca (they/them) – Host & Performer

Originally from Michoacán Mexico, Oliver is a core company member of Teatro Alebrijes, a queer Latinx theatre ensemble based in San Jose, CA. In addition to performing, Oliver supports the ensemble with make-up and costume design. Outside of their work with Teatro Alebrijes, Oliver performs in drag throughout the bay area as Monarcha Elezia. When they’re not performing, Oliver works in HIV outreach for Santa Clara County.

Alfonso Cervera (He/They/El) – “Q-Lucha” Dancer

Alfonso is a current Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he shares is research interests and movement practices. Being a Queer first generation Mexican American practitioner and choreographer who received his MFA from the University of California, Riverside, Cervera has also obtained certifications in Asana Yoga, Pilates, and Reiki Healing. His research and specialization as an independent artist, focuses on the conversation between queerness, Ballet Folklorico and Afro-LatinX social dances in a contemporary auto-biographical embodied experience that he calls Poc-Chuc. Poc-Chuc, an emerging and inclusive dance technique developed by Cervera, weaves these techniques as a pedagogical tool to adhere to the current times and to create representation for marginalized communities. Cervera is a founder and collaborator of Primera Generación Dance Collective in the Los Angeles area creating works that represent Mexican American identity and social justice. Amount other things, he has been awarded grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, Artist Trust in Seattle, Department of Cultural Affairs in Los Angeles, and is now one of the four Executive Directors of Show Box L.A.

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