Silvia Gonzalez S.
New Dramatists Alumnus
Chicago Dramatists Alumnus
Dramatists Guild Member
POB 152 Powell Butte, Oregon 97753
silgo@earthlink.net
www.SilviaGonzalezS.com
Grants, Awards, Commissions, Playwright Exchange, Theater Fests
- METLIFE Winner Presentation August 2007 NYC Repertorio Espańol
- METLIFE Voces Winner 2004
- Codices Project Grant Teatro Vision 2003-2004
- Commission, SE HABLA, Starfish Theatreworks, 2000
- Commission for Feature Film, Critical Mass Productions, 2000
- Barebones Film Festival Screenwriters Competition, Finalist 2000
- Chesterfield Award, Semi-finalist 2000
- Literary Arts Fellowship in Theater, Portland, Oregon 2000
- Leslie Bradshaw Fellowship for LOS MATADORES, 2000
- Hispanic Playwright Award (BOXCAR)Southwest Rep, 1999
- Berkeley Rep Commission (tour) of ALICIA IN WONDER TIERRA, 1998
- ‘Libros y Familias’ Grant to THE MIGRANT FARMWORKER’S SON, 1998
- Whitfield Cook Award, THE MIGRANT FARMWORKER’S SON, 1997
- Cascadia Exchange NWPG, Seattle, REPEAT HERO, 1996
- Lila Wallace/ Reader's Digest Grant, ALICIA IN WONDER TIERRA, 1995
- Oregon Arts Council Grant (To work on Reservation), 1995
- Kennedy Center Commission, FIESTA, 1995
- Lane Arts Council Grant, (To work on Indian Reservation; CONFEDERATE TRIBES OF WARM SPRINGS, WARM SPRINGS OREGON), 1995
- Portland International Theater Festival: Teatro Milagro reading U GOT THE LOOK, 1995
- Lee Korf Playwriting Award, U GOT THE LOOK, 1994
- HBO New Writers Project, Honorable Mention 1994
- Kennedy Center's New Visions/ New Voices DC, “ALICIA” 1993
- SouthCoast Rep, Hispanic Playwrights Project, “ALICIA” 1993
- Live Oak Theater Festival, ALICIA IN WONDER TIERRA, 1993
- Texas Hispanic Theater Festival, WAITING WOMEN, 1993
- STAGETIME at the Playwrights' Center, Minneapolis 1991
- Borderlands Theater Playwrights Project, 1991
- INTAR’s Lab to study with Maria Irene Fornes, NY 1989
- Seattle Group Theater’s Multicultural Playwrights' Festival, 1989
Productions
· ALICIA IN WONDER TIERRA with Cara Mia Theatre Company produced in conjunction with the Dallas Children's Theater, September 2007
· ALICIA IN WONDER TIERRA (Or I Can't Eat Goat Head) Utah State Theater at the Morgan Theatre September 2007 UST Family Show
· EL VAGON, National Winner of VOCES, production at Repertorio Espanol, New York City, for August 2007
· SAMUAL AND DANIELA production at Wizard Oil Productions NYC March 2007
· Alicia in Wonder Tierra (Special Touring Presentation), Directed by Dr. Cecilia Aragon, October 23 -31, 2006
· EL VAGON, Teatro de la Rosa, Fort Forth, Texas November 2006
· EL VAGON, Teatro del Piel and Teatro Bravo, Nevada, director Guillermo Reyes April 2006
· EL VAGON, Teatro Bravo with Borderlands and Arizona State University Theater Department, Phoenix, Arizona, director Guillermo Reyes March 2006
· THE MIGRANT FARMWORKER'S SON, University of Texas El Paso Chicano Theatre, directed by Becky Elias, October 2005 (Graduate Student Production)
· THE MIGRANT FARMWORKER'S SON, The Empty Space, directed by Maria Morales-Mercado, October 2004
BOXCAR, Teatro Vision 2004, English and Spanish Version; Director Elisa Marina Alvarado; translator, Rubi Orozco.
· Second Stage Theater’s ‘Immigrant Project’ BOXCAR (excerpt) 2003; Director, Isis Misary
· THE MIGRANT FARMWORKER'S SON, META at the University Theater, Cal State Long Beach, directed by Emiliano Torres, 2003.
· THE NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER RADIO SHOW, Stockyard Theater 2002; Director, Jill Elaine Hughes
· ALICIA IN WONDER TIERRA (OR I CAN’T EAT GOAT HEAD), Teatro Humilidad, Houston, Texas 2002
· DON’T PROMISE (A Story of Women, Mormonism, and Survival), Stockyard Theater Project, Chicago, 2000; Director, Jill Elaine Hughes
· ALICIA IN WONDER TIERRA, Theater for Young Folk, 2000; Director Pam Sterling
· BORDER, American Playwrights of Color II, San Francisco Community College Sept. 1999
· ALICIA IN WONDER TIERRA, Bay Area School Tour, Berkeley Rep, 1998; Director, Miko Lee
· LOS MATADORES, (workshop) Paula Productions, September 1997
· WAITING WOMEN (Pearl Hart’s Famous Stage Coach Robbery), Mutt Repertory Theater, New York, 1997; Director, Liz Ortiz-Mackes
· ALICIA IN WONDER TIERRA, The Coterie, 1995; Director, Jose Cruz Gonzalez
· ˇFIESTA! John F. Kennedy Center, Washington DC, 1995
· LA LLORONA LLORA, Whole Art Theater 1994
· THE MIGRANT FARMWORKER'S SON, Univeristy of El Paso Playhouse, directed by Katie Simmons 1994
· U GOT THE LOOK, The Original Theater Works, workshop 1994
· LA LLORONA LLORA, The Whole Art Theater, Michigan, October 1993
· I CAN'T EAT GOAT HEAD, SouthCoast Repertory Theater, Hispanic Playwrights Project, Workshop, 1993
· I CAN'T EAT GOAT HEAD, Kennedy Center, New Voices/New Vision, workshop 1993
· WAITING WOMEN, Chicago Dramatists, workshop 1993
· LOS MATADORES, The Body Politic Theater, workshop 1992
· THE MIGRANT FARMWORKER'S SON, Chicago Dramatists, workshop 1992
· T FOR TORTURE, Aquijon II Theater Company, world premiere, (bilingual production in rep), 1992
*Contact Dramatist Publishing for more productions across North America.
www.dramaticpublishing.com
Published
· WAITING WOMEN, Dramatic Publishing, 1998
· ALICIA IN WONDER TIERRA (OR I CAN’T EAT GOAT HEAD) Dramatic Publishing Company, 1996
· ALICIA IN WONDER TIERRA-ONE ACT VERSION, Dramatic Publishing, 1996
· THE MIGRANT FARMWORKER’S SON, Dramatic Publishing 1996
· LA LLORONA LLORA, Dramatic Publishing 1996
· Published poetry with small presses.
Books with Play Inclusions
· Best Plays by the Graduating Class 2001: New Dramatists, Smith & Kraus, 2001
· Drama for Reading and Performance, THE MIGRANT FARMWORKER’S SON, Perfection Learning Publishers, 2000
· Monologues and Short Plays for Young Adults, by Kent Brown, (Plays and monologues: X-MAN, TOLD HER, BORDER, and an excerpt of BOXCAR [We Always Find You]), 1999
· Multicultural Theater 2: New Hispanic, Asian, and African-American Plays for Young Audiences, anthology (entire play of THE MIGRANT FARMWORKER’S SON included) Meriwether Publishing, 1998
· Biography of Pearl Hart by Randy Ford (Excerpts of WAITING WOMEN), 1998
· Contemporary Minority Women Playwrights by Suzanne Bennett Ph.D. and Jane T. Peterson, Ph.D. Greenwood Press 1996 (work history)
· Multicultural Scenes and Monologues from the Contemporary Theater, by Dr. Roger Ellis Meriwether Publishing Company 1996 (Excerpts of BOXCAR and THE MIGRANT FARMWORKER’S SON)
· Act Like a Man by Bob Vorlicky, University of Michigan Press 1995 (Mentions work)
MISC.
· High School teacher at Mt. Bachelor Academy, Language Department, 2005-
· Spanish Interpreter for Crook County Health Department
· Chicken farmer-current
· Title 1-C Migrant Resource Teacher for Crook County School District 2002-2003
· OCHA (Oregon Commission of Hispanic Advancement) CO-directed Klamec (Aztec rituals) 1999 (with grant from Actors-to-Go, Artists Repertory Theater, Portland, Oregon)
· Warm Springs Indian Reservation Writer’s Workshop Teacher and director, 1995-1996
· Artists in Residence at Central Oregon Schools, 1994-1996 and Chicago Inner City Schools Writer’s Workshop, 1993
· Elementary School Teacher and Bilingual School Teacher, 1982-1992
