27 Facts About Tanya Saracho

Tanya Selene Saracho is a Mexican-American actress, playwright, dramaturge and screenwriter.

Tanya Saracho co-founded the Alliance of Latinx Theater Artists of Chicago.

Tanya Saracho is particularly known for centering the "Latina gaze".

Tanya Selene Saracho was born in, Mexico, to Ramiro A Saracho, head customs officer with the and a powerful figure in the conservative Institutional Revolutionary Party, and Rosalina Armenta.

Tanya Saracho attended middle and high school in McAllen and enrolled in Boston University College of Fine Arts to study theater, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

Tanya Saracho has said that a goal of her work is to provide representation for Latinx people and address stereotypes.

Tanya Saracho's career started in 1998 when she moved to Chicago.

Tanya Saracho parted with the group in January 2010 to focus on playwriting.

Tanya Saracho worked as an outside actor on occasion during her time at.

Tanya Saracho was then working on two Andrew W Mellon Foundation commissions for Steppenwolf Theatre, an adaptation of a play for Oregon Shakespeare Festival called The Tenth Muse, and a historical fiction piece for About Face Theatre called The Good Private.

Tanya Saracho is a member of SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America West and has worked as a voice-over actress.

In 2012, Tanya Saracho began working in television, benefiting from the ABC Diversity program.

In 2014, Tanya Saracho wrote a two-hander for the Goodman Theatre, where one character was a first-year TV writer and the other a janitor.

The Denver Theatre Center commissioned Tanya Saracho to expand that work to create Fade, which premiered there in Winter 2016.

Tanya Saracho continued writing for theater while writing for television, including two theater commissions, one set in Red Bank, New Jersey and the other in Costa Mesa, California.

Between seasons of Looking, Tanya Saracho worked on The Tenth Muse, an all-female play set in a convent in Colonial Mexico.

Tanya Saracho, working with the production company Big Beach, created, co-wrote, and co-produced the show Vida.

In February 2018, Tanya Saracho signed a 3-year deal with Starz.

Tanya Saracho has described season 1 of Vida as a three-hour pilot.

Tanya Saracho was named the Best New Playwright by Chicago magazine, one of the nine national by Cafe magazine and given the first award in theater by the National Museum of Mexican Art.

Tanya Saracho has won the Goodman's Ofner Prize, a 3Arts Artists Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Distinguished New Play Development Project Grant with About Face Theater.

Tanya Saracho identifies as queer and has a mainly LGBTQ+ social circle.

Tanya Saracho was diagnosed with diabetes in 2010, of which there is a family history.

Tanya Saracho has spoken about suffering from anxiety and impostor syndrome.

Tanya Saracho has said that in 2008, she chose to become a US citizen in order to vote for Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election.

Tanya Saracho has spoken out about racism that she has experienced in Chicago.

Tanya Saracho grew up, went to school and to college with fellow Mexican-American actor Raul Castillo, who she was in a relationship with as a teenager.