ABOUT US

a todo dar productions stages public interventions and builds convivial spaces for and with community to study, think, imagine, create and dream together. To date, we have produced theatre in public plazas and parks, a women’s prison, under the freeway, in cargo boxes, in a rice silo, and virtually. Our ongoing projects—talleres for dreaming and fugitive libraries — include a sobremesa series, encuentros, consultas, artist exchanges and intercambios.

MISSION

Building convivial spaces for collective dreaming

 VISION 

a todo dar envisions a world where our dreams matter, where as a people—we are free. 

VALUES

Creativity & Imagination
Community & Collaboration
Risk & Experimentation

THEORY OF
PRACTICE

If we can imagine and create spaces for us to study and think together, work and collaborate together, dance and sing together—spaces for movement, joy and celebration—we can begin to imagine and create a world where we are all free.

Our Team

FOUNDING
MEMBERS

Virginia Grise is a recipient of the Alpert Award in the Arts, Yale Drama Award, Whiting Writers’ Award, and the Princess Grace Award in Theatre Directing. As a writer, performer, director and creative producer, her interdisciplinary body of work includes plays, multimedia performance, dance theater, performance installations, guerilla theater, site specific interventions, and community gatherings. She holds an MFA in Writing for Performance from the California Institute of the Arts and is a founding member of a todo dar productions.

Virginia Grise
Founding Member

Maricella Z. Infante
Founding Member

Maricella Z. Infante was born at her grandmother’s house on Colima Street on the Westside of San Antonio, Texas. Her umbilical cord was buried in the backyard so that she never forgets where she came from or how to find her way back home.  Maricella is an artist, builder, collaborator who has co-led and worked on art projects internationally on various scales, from an artist-run gallery in a Bronx apartment to multi-city, multimedia theatre projects. She is a founding member of a todo dar productions and the COO of Phoenix Translations, a certified women-owned and operated business in Elgin, Texas where she oversees the production end of all translation projects. 

CREATIVE PRODUCERS

Megan E. Carter
rasgos asiáticos
a farm for meme

Megan E. Carter is a creative producer, strategy consultant, and dramaturg with a track record of sustained success in theatre, interdisciplinary performing arts and live events. Most recently, she led SITI Company, an award-winning theater ensemble, through a comprehensive legacy plan, archive process, and finale season.  She has developed and produced new and classic works Off-Broadway, as well as internationally at theatres, venues, and festivals. She has her MFA in Dramaturgy from Brooklyn College/CUNY.

Martha Gonzalez
Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind

Martha Gonzalez is a Chicana artivista, musician, feminist music theorist and Associate Professor in the Intercollegiate Department of Chicana/o Latina/o Studies at Scripps/Claremont College. Born and raised in Boyle Heights, Gonzalez is a MacArthur Fellow, Fulbright Garcia Robles Fellow, Ford Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Fellow and United States Artist Fellow. Her academic interests have been fueled by her own musicianship as a singer/songwriter and percussionist for the Grammy Award-winning band Quetzal. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband Quetzal Flores and their son Sandino.

Tanya Orellana
rasgos astiáticos

Tanya Orellana designs live performance spaces for theatre, opera, and immersive experiences. Tanya received her MFA in Scenic Design from CalArts and is the 2016 recipient of the Princess Grace Fabergé Theatre Award.  She was part of the design team representing the US at the Prague Quadrennial 2023, a member of Wingspace Theatrical Design, and an organizing member of La Gente: The Latine Production Network. 

Marissa Ramirez
Fugitive Libraries

Marissa Ramirez designs arts-based interventions and creates public spaces for reading the world culturally and politically. She is a founding member of Books in the Barrio, established in 2003, in an effort to bring attention to the lack of bookstores on the South Side of San Antonio. Books in the Barrio continues as an ongoing grassroots campaign promoting self-determination and autonomy through literacy.

Kendra Ware is a performance-based multidisciplinary artist who creates staged environments using experimental approaches to art-making, live performance, video and installation to explore the intersections of race, gender, class, cultural politics, and identity. Her work has been awarded a NEFA Creation and Touring Grant, NPN Documentation and Creation Fund Grant. 2022 Dramaleague Fellow; 2023 Lloyd Richards SDCF New Futures Resident at Actors Theatre of Louisville. She earned her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.

Kendra Ware
Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind

Elena Araoz
a farm for meme

Elena Araoz directs theater, opera, multi-media performance and large-scale immersive events, working internationally, Off-Broadway, and across the country. The New York Times has praised her productions as “form-busting,” “gorgeous,” “refreshingly natural,” and The Boston Globe as “riveting,” “dreamy,” “vivid.” She serves as Producing Artistic Director of Lewis Center for the Arts theater and music theater season, where she founded Innovations in Socially Distant Performance.

RESIDENT DRAMATURGES

Omi Osun Joni L. Jones
Resident Dramaturge

Omi Osun Joni L. Jones brings Black Feminist praxis and theatrical jazz principles to her artmaking, pedagogy, and facilitation.  Her most recent book is Theatrical Jazz: Performance, Àṣẹ, and the Power for the Present Moment. She earned her Ph.D. from New York University, and her Embodied Social Justice Certificate from Transformative Change.  She is Professor Emerita from the African and African Diaspora Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin, a mother, a Queer wife, and a curious sojourner.

Priscilla Solis Ybrarra
Resident Dramaturge

Priscilla Solis Ybarra, Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of North Texas, writes and teaches about Mexican American culture and how to dwell well with the Earth. Her publications include Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment and Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial. Her current project documents her ecological foremothers. You can find some of her photography via #ChicanaBirder.

MARKETING & PUBLICITY

Elyssa Perez
Social Media Strategist

Elyssa Perez is a writer and theatre artist from Providence, Rhode Island who writes with a love for the ways stories can mirror our communal connections and call us towards greater collective care. Elyssa creates with the intention of celebrating Ancestral healing practices and ritual. She graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in Africana Studies and Theatre Arts & Performance Studies.

Xavi Moreno
Graphic Designer

Xavi Moreno is an actor, writer, poet, graphic designer, producer, director, historian, educator and a proud Native Angelino, born, raised in the historic neighborhood of Boyle Heights. Recognized as a Young Leader of Color by Theatre Communications Group, Xavi is Marketing Director for The Latino Theater Company at The Los Angeles Theatre Center, Producing Director for Company of Angels and Marketing Assistant at Independent Shakespeare Co. 

The Nest
Graphic Design & Marketing Agency

The Nest is a creative studio and gathering hub, investing in and collaborating with artists and entrepreneurs building a thriving future and vibrant present. Rooted in connection, care and craft, The Nest incites culture change and nurtures radical possibilities. 

NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

Sharon Bridgforth
National Advisory Board Member

Sharon Bridgforth is a 2023 United States Artists Fellow, 2022 Winner of Yale's Windham Campbell Prize in Drama, a 2020-2023 Playwrights’ Center Core Member, a 2022-2024 McKnight National Fellow and a New Dramatists alumnae. A Doris Duke Performing Artist, she has received support from Creative Capital, MAP Fund and the National Performance Network. Sharon's bull-jean & dem/dey back and All These Things: A Conversation by Sharon Bridgforth & Daniel Alexander Jones are published by 53rd State Press. 

Nicole R Fleetwood
National Advisory Board Member

Nicole R Fleetwood is a MacArthur Fellow, a writer, curator, art critic and the inaugural James Weldon Johnson Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication in the Steinhardt School at New York University. She is the author of Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration and the curator of the traveling exhibition, Marking Time: Art in the Era of Mass Incarceration, which debuted at MoMA PS1. The exhibition was listed as “one of the most important art moments in 2020” by The New York Times and among the best shows of the year by The New Yorker and Hyperallergic.

Casandra Hernández Faham
National Advisory Board Member

Casandra Hernández Faham has organized artistic and cultural collaborations in the US-Mexico borderlands throughout her career. She served as the first executive director of CALA Alliance (Celebración Artística de las Américas), a Latinx arts organization based in Phoenix that organizes creative collaborations with artists in Arizona, México, and Latin America. Among other honors, she was the recipient of the 2014 40 Hispanic Leaders Under 40 Award and is currently a program associate for Arts and Culture at the Mellon Foundation.

Joan Osato
National Advisory Board Member

Joan Osato is a committed community organizer and has played a pivotal role in local and national theater for over two decades. A core member of Youth Speaks since 2001, where she produces live performance events including the annual Brave New Voices festival in rotating cities around the country, she is also Producer for the Living Word Project and the critically acclaimed theater group Campo Santo. She works on behalf of national networks and sits on the boards of the National Performance Network and the Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists.

Our Partners

Collaborating Artists

  • Adelina Anthony

  • Elena Araoz

  • Blanka Amezkua

  • David Arevalo

  • Lianne Arnold

  • Marisa Becerra

  • Marlene Beltran

  • Scott Bolman

  • Florinda Bryant

  • Liz Castillo

  • Veronica Castillo

  • Bianca Celeste

  • Leilani Clark

  • Eddie Diaz

  • Mel Dominguez

  • Tylana Enomoto

  • Quetzal Flores

  • María Cristina Fusté

  • Ramses Gaona

  • Martin Gimenez

  • Andy Gonzalez

  • Martha Gonzalez

  • Dan Gower

  • Virginia Grise

  • Faylita Hicks

  • Maricella Infante

  • Omi Osun Joni L. Jones

  • GG Torres

  • Rosie Torres

  • Helena María Viramontes

  • Josephine Pu-Sheng Wang

  • Kendra Ware

  • Feng Feng Yeh

  • Graham Kolbeins

  • Karla Kopalli

  • Lydia Li

  • Adela C. Licona

  • Lulu Matute

  • Araceli Montaño

  • Gloria Negrete-Lopez

  • Yee Eun Nam

  • Annabelle V. Núñez

  • Tanya Orellana

  • Juan Perez

  • Marissa Ramirez

  • Manny Rivera

  • Bob Robles

  • Alyssa Ruiz

  • Luke Salcido

  • Michelle Tellez

  • Yunior Terry

Collaborating Organizations
& Funding Partners

  • AAA3A

  • AdeRisa Productions

  • Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice at University of Arizona 

  • allgo

  • Alliance for California Traditional Arts 

  • Books in the Barrio

  • CalArts Center for New Performance/Duende CalArts

  • California Humanities

  • Cara Mía Theatre

  • Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University

  • Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland

  • College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona 

  • Cornell University’s Department of English and Critical Race Theory Series

  • DiverseWorks

  • Fulcrum Theater

  • Galeria EVA

  • Galeria Mitotera

  • Innovations in Socially Distant Performance, a research project housed at Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University

  • Las Maestras Center for Xicana/x Indigenous Thought, Art and Social Practice at UC Santa Barbara

  • Latinx Commons 

  • MAP Fund

  • Mellon Foundation

  • Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana

  • National Association for Latino Arts and Culture

  • National Endowment for the Arts 

  • National Latinx Theater Initiative 

  • National New Play Network

  • National Performance Network

  • Network of Ensemble Theaters 

  • New England Foundation for the Arts

  • Outside In Theatre

  • Performance in the Borderlands at Arizona State University

  • Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater

  • Princess Grace Foundation 

  • Projecting All Voices at Arizona State University 

  • REDCAT

  • San Antonio River Foundation

  • Southwest Folklife Alliance 

  • Terra Advocati

  • Texas Performing Arts at the University of Texas at Austin 

  • The Art of Change Agency

  • The Chinese Chorizo Project

  • Urban Bird Project