Citlali Pizarro

Nov 20, 2024 | howlround.com | Citlali Pizarro

Leaving the District of Columbia Central Detention Facility every week was, in some ways, more tiresome than the obstacle-laden process of getting in. In 2022, as a fellow at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, I had the unique privilege to be a member of Spit Dat Academy at the jail, a weekly spoken word poetry workshop with incarcerated poets. The program culminated in a poetry reading inside the jail, bringing together an audience of people from inside and out.

Jan 23, 2024 | americantheatre.org | Citlali Pizarro

My abuela had a flair for the dramatic and a lot of womanly advice. She shared that advice freely while watching over a frying pan, brushing off the occasional splash of hot oil with a loud curse. It poured forth in the form of epic novellas with winding side plots about the women in our family. It held a magical, almost spiritual quality; in the sanctity of her kitchen, it was shared as a roadmap for living under patriarchy.

Nov 14, 2023 | americantheatre.org | Citlali Pizarro

Editor’s Note: In partnership with the Doris Duke Foundation and the Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation, TCG’s THRIVE! Uplifting Theatres of Color initiative offered $1,140,000, equaling 46 grants in 3 categories, to U.S.-based (including Tribal lands and Territories) Black Theatres, Indigenous Theatres, and Theatres of Color (BITOC).

Nov 14, 2023 | mtr.cool | Citlali Pizarro

Editor’s Note: In partnership with the Doris Duke Foundation and the Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation, TCG’s THRIVE! Uplifting Theatres of Color initiative offered $1,140,000, equaling 46 grants in 3 categories, to U.S.-based (including Tribal lands and Territories) Black Theatres, Indigenous Theatres, and Theatres of Color (BITOC).