by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen. She was inducted into The College of Fellows for the American Theatre in 2018, and appointed by President Obama to the NEA’s National Council on the Arts. She was president of the Theatre Communications Group Board from 2013–2016. She was a 2017 Directing Fellow for Sundance Theatre Lab in Arles, France, and the 2016 Directing Fellow for the Stage Directors and Choreographer’s Foundation.
She curated and produced, with REDCAT, “RADAR LA,” an international theatre festival in 2011 and 2013. She directed for numerous theatre companies, including East West Players, South Coast Repertory, Pasadena Playhouse, Center Theatre Group, City Theatre in Pittsburgh, Mixed Blood in Minneapolis, Actors Theatre of Phoenix , Borderlands Theater in Arizona, Victory Gardens in Chicago and Playwrights’ Arena/Los Angeles , among others.
For 10 seasons, she was a leading actress for the seminal theatre company El Teatro Campesino, with whom she toured nationally and internationally. She was also a cofounder of the ground- breaking comedy troupe, Latins Anonymous. Recently, she directed the world premiere of “Las Mujeres Del Mar” for Playwrights’ Arena in 2019, Culture Clash’s “Bordertown Now” at Pasadena Playhouse and Richard Cabral’s “Fighting Shadows” at Inner City Arts, both in 2018. Her play “Living Large” premiered at Teatro Luna in 2012 and “The Sweetheart Deal” premiered in 2017 at Los Angeles Theatre Center.
She is survived by her husband, Jose Delgado, owner of Pleiades Management and producing director of Ojai Playwrights Conference; her mother, Helen E. Rodriguez of San Jose, her niece, Gabrielle E. Fusco, nephew Mario J. Fusco, and brother-in-law, Gary Fusco. No memorial plans have been announced.