My current draft of life
As a storyteller I love to explore intersectionality and specifically intersectional feminism. A lens for life developed from my mixed/divorced household, empowering all-girls high school, growing pains in conservative Texas, and traveling to 19 different countries.
Nine of which while on tour with the Masterworks Chamber Choir and the others by accompanying my Aunt and Uncle.
I grew up with three sets of parents, mom and dad, aunt and uncle, last and not least, my fresh-from-Manila grandparents. To this day I call my grandma every morning and night, she has onset Alzheimers and the calls help us both while we are apart.
Just this past June, Chicks screened at the legendary TCL Chinese Theatre at the Dances with Films Film festival and my grandmother got to see my face on big screen for her 83rd Birthday.
I know we can’t rush artistry but I dream of a day when I can import my whole international family into one house so we can be whole again.
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I have a couple things in the works. But I like to keep it rather hush. Success happens in silence.
Let’s just say this:
(Please read this in the style of “We Didn't Start the Fire” by Billy Joel or “La Vie Boheme” from RENT!”)
Actor.Singer. Poem Rhymester. Screenwriter. Great Crier. Producer. AMC A-List-Movie-Lover. Daughter. Granddaughter. Audiobook Player. Late Nighter. Early Riser. Wannabe Exerciser.
Last but not least, I wouldn’t be a newly minted Angelino if I wasn't a La Croix Drinker.
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It works better with the first song option…
Yes I read that in my mind.
Now you read that in your mind.
Now we have each other. :)
I am more than just my craft, all of these things give me no choice but to be my craft.
Above clips: My first legit ShortFilm Love Transmitted, the second film I ever wrote, screened, and produced Game, Set, Match! and my college thesis a solo theatrical piece called Cereal or Fish.
Here is a podcast I guest starred that serves as my WHOLE life bio. Really almost all of it up the point of recording. If you have the time, you can listen to it, and no worries, I won’t at all quiz you on it.
All the glitters are not gold...yet...
What I’m all about.
Working in front of and behind the camera
I started off as the Managing Director of the oldest Student Theatre Company at St.Edward’s University called Transit Theatre Troupe. I produced over 20+ shows over the course of my sophomore through junior year.
Concurrently I then became Production Assistant for a western Wanted (2017), western TV-show Death and Compromise (2017) and Sidestep (2018). Then a producer and writer for my own short-film Game, Set, Match! a spoof of the classic film-noir genre. I then served as 2nd AD for Javelina Run (SAG-AFTRA) [2019], directed by the award winning Lisa Belcher starring Lorelei Linklater and Larry Welch. Lately I take the time to think-tank on great collaborators’ newly penned scripts for peer review and hopefully encourage each other to get our work out into the world!
Being a paid professional entrusted by other artists to help their work come to fruition first and THEN, stepping into acting; I know what leads up to to having lines to memorize, having crafty, and having lights shining on my face. I am mindful of all the collaboration put into every set, it really does take a village.
BTS pictures provided by local Texas filmmaker Samuel Ali and David Solis Jr.
