Playwright
Erlina Ortiz
Erlina Ortiz is a Dominican-American playwright, performer, and theatre maker from Reading, PA based in Philadelphia. Her heartfelt and timely plays on gentrification, domestic violence, and cultural preservation have been produced with Power Street Theatre where she is proud to be Co-Artistic Director and Resident Playwright. In 2018 Her play Las Mujeres received The Bonaly Award for Creation of Community Joy and in Spring 2019 her play Morir Sonyando was nominated for six Barrymore Awards including Outstanding New Play. Erlina has received the Amtrak Writer’s residency, the Signal Fire Outpost Residency, in 2019 she gave the Keynote Address at the Delaware Writer’s Conference, and she is a 2020 recipient of the Leeway Art and Change Grant. Erlina has taught playwriting with the University of the Arts, Power Street Theatre, and Blue Stoop phl. Erlina believes being an artist is a superpower, she believes in using her powers for good.
director
Briana Gause
Briana is blessed to be a Philadelphia based multidisciplinary artist who recently received her BFA in Directing, Playwriting and Production from The University of the Arts. Recently, Briana produced a Black Philly Film Fest, Fade to Black, where her short DISCOVERING BLACKHOLES: A TRAILER showed. She’s also the co-creator and producer of the Black Cloud Festival. Recently she’s directed a reading of FAT HAM by James Ijames, and was the Assistant Director of STEM FEMMES: Credit Re-edited. Briana’s play AMELIA FRANCHESCA AMDOR... premiered at the Dreams and Delusions Festival. And her play SUMMER premiered at Equinox: A New Play Festival. She’s starred in the short film ITS TIME TO GET LOST, and has had her painting GO AWAY featured in the One Love Sexual Assault awareness month Exhibition.
For more about Briana, you can visit her website, Ohmygause.com or follow her on Instagram @OMG_Present
For more about Briana, you can visit her website, Ohmygause.com or follow her on Instagram @OMG_Present
