Interview with Actress Estée Burks

What is your identity? How does it affect your work? I identify myself as black. It is so crazy how no matter what I actually identify with, when being cast or considered for certain roles, my identity is solely in the hands of someone else who only sees me from THEIR vantage point. And that’s […]

Interview with Playwright Rachel Lynett

What is your identity? Defining my identity has continued to be something I’m still trying to figure out. Typically, I identify as a theatre artist of color but the full spectrum of my identity is best described as Afro-Latinx, Black, LGBQTIA+ theatre artist. What is your mission as a writer? I came up with this […]

Interview with Writer and Performer Andie Flores

What is your identity? I’m a Xicana and a Chigona from San Antonio, Texas, living in Austin. I’m a writer, performer, stylist, payasa. What are you working on? Right now I’m in the pre-production and crowdfunding stages of my new web series, Muy Excited. I’m also slowly writing a short film. Tell us about Muy Excited. Muy Excited is an 8-episode […]

Interview with Playwright Tyler English-Beckwith

What is your identity? I am a Black woman. Writer. Fighter. Lover. Twerker. Some-time actor. Tell us about TWENTYEIGHT and other pieces that you are working on. TWENTYEIGHT is currently running at The Vortex. I just finished a full length play called Mingus about a famous black intellectual’s relationship with two of his students. I also recently […]

Review: 8 Words That Describe Dr. Lisa B. Thompson’s Underground

RIVETING. HILARIOUS. HEARTFELT. HONEST. REAL. MUSICAL. IMPERATIVE. THOUGHT-PROVOKING. You have to be living under a rock not to know about Lisa B. Thompson’s play Underground, written by Dr. Lisa B. Thompson and directed by Rudy Ramirez. The duo-casted show recently finished its incredible run at the Vortex, one of Austin’s livest theatre companies. It came […]