Monica Palacios is a Chicana lesbian American playwright and performer, specialising in Chicana, queer, feminist, and lesbian themes.
27 Facts About Monica Palacios
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Monica Palacios has charted the intersection of queer and Latina identities in Latinx communities, with their mutually marginalising impact.
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Monica Palacios's works are taught in many schools and colleges, where she has served frequently as a director of student theatre.
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Monica Palacios attended Chico State University and transferred to San Francisco State University, at which she earned a BA in Cinema with a concentration in screenwriting.
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Monica Palacios has been producing theatre works for over three decades.
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Monica Palacios has created several one-woman shows, plays, and screenplays.
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Monica Palacios's poems, plays, and anthologies are taught in universities and examined in scholarly settings, usually in the fields of LGBTQ Studies, Chicano Studies, and Feminist Studies.
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Monica Palacios attended an all girls Catholic school where her love of comedy was already visible.
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Monica Palacios loved to watch sitcoms and stand up comedians on TV and would try to imitate them for her classmates.
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Monica Palacios even tried doing stand-up in her high school English classes.
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Monica Palacios first went at the Queer establishment, which was founded in 1982 and was the first gay comedy club in the country, just to watch other stand-ups perform.
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Monica Palacios had first performed at a straight comedy club to a tepid audience response.
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Monica Palacios did the same set she had done at the straight club, but she added a bit about her girlfriend and the audience exploded with laughter.
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Monica Palacios told hilarious stories about her family and her girlfriends.
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The majority of Monica Palacios' writing is about her interpretations of her experiences throughout life as a queer, Chicana woman.
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Monica Palacios's work is known for being unapologetically queer, despite the homophobia that had permeated Latinx communities since long before she began performing.
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Monica Palacios acknowledges that she often takes uncomfortable topics and makes them more palatable to herself and her audiences with physical comedy, but not without challenges and some pushback.
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In 2019, Monica Palacios presented a work titled I'm Still Here as a direct response to the Trump Administration.
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Monica Palacios organized cultural events in Los Angeles County which combined art and activism.
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Monica Palacios has won awards for her contributions to the queer and Latinx communities.
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Monica Palacios is a co-founding member of Culture Clash, whose satirical sketches, plays, and screenplays all feature race-based, political, and social commentary.
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In 2016, Monica Palacios performed her short play Say Their Names in the international theatre effort "After Orlando" in response to the Orlando nightclub shooting.
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Monica Palacios helped develop and has her own blog on epochalips.
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Monica Palacios is featured in STAND UP STAND OUT, a queer documentary tracing the history of The Valencia Rose Cabaret.
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In over three decades, Monica Palacios has written numerous plays, stand-up sets, poems, and articles.
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Monica Palacios began her solo work in 1982 and has dozens of performances.
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Monica Palacios has been a lecturer at UCLA and UC Santa Barbara.