Daniella Balarezo Hernandez
Daniella Balarezo (she/they) is a writer and performer from the borderlands of El Paso Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Her writing has been featured on Remezcla, TED, and at Sesame Workshop. They started doing comedy at Brown University in Providence, RI, where they co-founded Skorts Sketch Comedy and wrote and edited for The Rib, an online satire magazine penned by women and people of other marginalized genders. BoogieManja and Magnet theater alumn and UCB Diversity Scholarship recipient. Her latest short film screenplay with co-author Hannah Hollandbyrd recently won a Femme Frontera grant.
La Chingada
Short | Dreamed
A young man finds himself in Mexican purgatory and does everything he can to escape.
Cuetas
Half-hour | Comedy
Cuatas is a half-hour comedy about a young Dominican-American woman starting college at an elite university where she unexpectedly befriends her estranged sister's former lover -- a Mexican woman studying at the university's graduate school. Together, the two women re-define the meaning of chosen family.