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Amparo Garcia-Crow

Amparo Garica-Crow, is a Latina writer, director and actress, based in Austin, Texas.

Garcia-Crow identifies herself as an "inter-disciplinary artist who acts, directs, sings, writes plays, screenplays and songs" as well as a film artist, with a "strong focus...for the last few years...in storytelling and the development of solo work" as she currently directs performance artists and storytellers[1].

Career

Amparo Garcia-Crow has been a Master Acting Teacher for MFA Acting Program at University of Texas in Austin, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Drama at Austin Community College[2][3]. She is the founder and current host of THE LIVING ROOM: Storytime for Grownups in Austin, Texas[4]. Garcia-Crow has developed as a playwright at South Coast Repertory Theatre and Mabou Mines, and has world premieres Off-Broadway, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Latino Chicago, and at various Southwest theaters and universities[3].

Currently, Amparo Garcia-Crow is in residence with NYC’s Mabou Mines as she is creating and developing a new musical, “Strip.” Garcia-Crow is also working on the screenplays, “Appeal” and “Unknown Soldier: The New American Musical of Mexican Descent” with i25 Productions in Los Angeles[3]. Some of Garcia-Crow’s recent self-written-and-produced plays include, “Death Rattle,” “Loves and Fishes,” and “Territories”[3].

THE LIVING ROOM: Storytime for Grownups

Amparo Garcia-Crow found inspiration for THE LIVING ROOM: Storytime for Grownups in her own experience working with the original show, In The West, which featured “monologues written and performed by the members” of the independent Big State Productions and ran for six years from 1985 to 1991[4][5]. Starting in 2010, Amparo Garcia-Crow developed the “monthly storytelling series” THE LIVING ROOM: Storytime for Grownups. Garcia-Crow created this series as a “renaissance” of her own “artistic development...of the deep exploration...about the power of story at its most stripped down and most human interactive possibility,” with the heart of the production to be ”about brave living and the hero’s journey for living”[4]. The performance consists of three men and three women, for a total of six storytellers, with Garcia-Crow performing her own piece last. THE LIVING ROOM: Storytime for Grownups regularly has an audience ranging from 280-300 members per show[4].

Published Works

Garcia- Crow's collection of works titled “Between Misery and the Sun: The South Texas Plays” is published by No Passport Press[6].

Acclaim

Amparo Garcia-Crow has had her works premiered at Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, Cine las Americas, SXSW Film Festival, and on the television network, PBS[3]. Amparo Garcia-Crow has received the Larry King Playwriting Award for her play, "Cocks Have Claws and Wings to Fly," as well as the ”Best Female Protagonist” award at the Mae West Festival: “ for her play, "Blue: La Mujer Moderna[3]."

Garica-Crow has also been part of the NEA/TCG Director’s Fellowship and she was a James Michener Fellow[3].

Acting

Amparo Garcia-Crow has performed at the Kennedy Center as well as regional theaters in the Southwest. Some of her more recent films have been "Love in the Sixties" (2014), where she had the roles of writer, director, producer, and actress[7]. She also was an actress in the film, "Straight A's" (2013)[8].

Along with having roles in independent films, commercials, and industrials, Garcia-Crow also had a reoccurring role on the PBS children's show, Wishbone[3].

http://www.amparogarciacrow.com/

References

  1. ^ "Plays Are About Humans — TCG Circle". www.tcgcircle.org. Retrieved 2015-12-04.
  2. ^ "AMPARO CROW | ACC Drama". sites.austincc.edu. Retrieved 2015-12-04.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "Bio". www.amparogarciacrow.com. Retrieved 2015-12-04.
  4. ^ a b c d "Stories Round the Campfire — TCG Circle". www.tcgcircle.org. Retrieved 2015-12-04.
  5. ^ "... And the 'West' is History How Big State's little monologue show changed Austin theatre". Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 4 December 2015. {{cite web}}: line feed character in |title= at position 30 (help)
  6. ^ "Plays". www.amparogarciacrow.com. Retrieved 2015-12-04.
  7. ^ "Love in the Sixties". IMDb. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  8. ^ "Straight A's". IMDb. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
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