AMALIA OLIVA ROJAS
Playwright
amyrjs@gmail.com
PLAYS & PRODUCTIONS
It’s Not So Bad In My Brain
- Developed as a playwright in residence at the women’s work short play lab, New Perspectives Theatre company
- Full production, New Perspectives Theatre Company, August 2019
Tonantzin On The 7 Train – One Woman Show
- Selected to participate in Nuyorican Poet’s Café Theater Festival, July 2019
- Received Honorable Mention in “Best of the Festival”
- Published by PEN AMERICA in anthology DREAMing Out Loud: Voices of Undocumented students
I Would Die 4 U
- Developed under the guidance of Mexican Novelist Álvaro Enrigue
- PEN America DREAMING OUT LOUD Fellowship 2017-2018
- Nuyorican Poets Café 2017
Next Door Neighbors
- Beginnings Playwrights Festival 2016, Lehman College, NY (full production)
- Recipient of The Jacob Hammer Memorial Prize for Playwriting
Dandelions
- Abington Theater Company, NY (workshop production)
- Vassar & New York Stage & Film Powerhouse Theater Training Program, Vassar College, NY
Silent Tradition
- Beginnings Playwrights Festival 2014, Lehman College, NY (full production)
- Recipient of the Jacob Hammer Memorial Prize for Playwriting
Transition
- Vassar & New York Stage & Film Powerhouse Theater Training Program, Vassar College, NY (full production)
The Seventh Floor
- Fidelity Future Stage, NY (full production)
- Winner of the Fidelity Future Stage Playwriting Competition – Published by Samuel French Inc.
Again
- Lehman Stages, NY (workshop production)
- Developed under the guidance of playwright William M. Hoffman
Just Friends No borders
- Fidelity Future Stage, NY (full production)
- Finalist to the Fidelity Future Stage Playwriting Competition
The Day the Sun Didn’t Rise
- Developed under the guidance of playwright Lucas Hnath
- The Wild Project Theater & Young Playwrights Inc. (staged reading)
Como Una Box Chocolate
- Finalist to the Young Playwrights Latino Challenge at TeatroStageFest, Latino International Theater Festival of New York, Inc. (staged reading)
PROFESSIONAL THEATER INTERNSHIPS
- New Dramatists, The Bernard B. Jacobs Internship Program – Playwriting Apprentice
- TheaterSpeak, Drama Bookshop – Writing Out Front Playwrights Coordinator
- TeatroStageFest, Production, Marketing and Community Outreach Apprentice
- Lincoln Center, Costume Design Apprentice
- The Kilroys’ List Lilly Awards Reading Series, Emerging Playwright Observer
THEATER PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE
- The Feather Doesn’t Fall Far From The Wing, Written, Composed, and Directed by Ayvaunn Penn, MFA playwriting candidate, Dramaturg, Columbia University Schapiro Studio
- TeatroStageFest, Assistant Stage Manager & Production Assistant on numerous local and international productions featured at the festival (2007-2013)
- Waiting for Lefty, Assistant Director, Lehman Stages, NY
- Lehman College Spring Dance Concert, Stage Manager, Lehman Stages, NY
- Macbeth, Assistant to the Costume Designer, Lehman Stages, NY
- Macondo, Blood Wedding, Yerma, Actor, Repertorio Español Educational Program, NY
TRAINING
- New York Stage & Film/Powerhouse Theater Program, Vassar College, NY .
- Young Playwrights Inc. Advanced Playwrights Workshop, Lucas Hnath
- Playwriting/Directing Mentorship, Susana Tubert
PlAYWRITING COURSES & WORKSHOPS: Carmen Rivera, David Henry Hwang, Tere Martinez, Dael Orlandersmith, William M. Hoffman, Max Reuben, Raquel Almazán
EDUCATION
- The City University of New York, The Bronx, NY (May 2016 )
- Bachelors of Arts: Theater/Playwriting
- Minor: Mexican–Mexican American Studies
- Honors: Presidential Scholar, Magna Cum Laude – GPA: 3.7
- Recipient of the Bill B. Biggs Award for Excellence in Theater
SCHOLARSHIPS & FELLOWSHIPS
- Orange County Immigrant Youth Scholarship 2016-2015
- CUNY BECAS Fellowship Recipient 2016-2015 and 2015-2014
- Hispanic Leadership Fund Scholarship 2015-2014
RECOGNITIONS
- American Theatre Magazine “Perchance to DREAM”
- Daily News feature article, Comenzó con Lapiz y Papel (“She Began with Paper and Pencil”)
- Univision spotlight, Hispanic Federation Education Week
- Telemundo PSA, Hispanic Federation DACA Awareness spot
*Playwright Interview with Daily News “ Hora Hispana”
Comenzo con Lapiz y Papel written by Pablo Garcia Gamez
“La pieza se destaca por su estructura, el elemento humorfstico, el ritmo dinamico y las tensiones entre los personajes.”- Daily News, Hora Hispana- Teatro: Comenzo con Lapiz y Papel Written By Pablo Garcia Gamez
