1. Evelina Fernandez is an American playwright and actress from Los Angeles.
15 Facts About Evelina Fernandez
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Evelina Fernandez was born in Los Angeles but lived the first nine years of her life in Arizona before returning to live with her grandparents after her parents got divorced.
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Evelina Fernandez first got involved in drama in the Garfield High School Drama Club.
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Evelina Fernandez then attended California State University, Los Angeles, where she continued to pursue theater and became involved in the Chicano Movement.
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Evelina Fernandez was a founding member of the Latino Theatre Company in 1985.
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Evelina Fernandez has remained involved for 30 years, writing several and performing in a dozen plays for the LTC.
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The play was the first play with a Chicano to be shown on Broadway however, Evelina Fernandez was pregnant with her first child, Fidel, and could not perform in the Broadway production.
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Evelina Fernandez then performed as Julie in American Me, a film about Chicano gang life and the prison system in the United States.
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Evelina Fernandez has since appeared as an actress in 28 movies, shows and film shorts.
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Evelina Fernandez wrote a loosely autobiographical trilogy called A Mexican Trilogy, which were put on at the LATC by the LTC.
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In 2000, the year that Luminarias was released, Evelina Fernandez won the Nosotros Golden Eagle Awards for Outstanding Writer.
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Evelina Fernandez has received two Ted Schmitt Awards from The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle for A Mexican Trilogy: An American Story and The Mother of Henry.
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Evelina Fernandez is married to the artistic director and one of the founders of the Latino Theater Company, Jose Luis Valenzuela.
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Jose has directed many of the plays that Evelina Fernandez has written and starred in.
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Valenzuela and Evelina Fernandez have two children and live in Los Angeles.