Amalia Oliva Rojas is a Mexican immigrant poet, performer, and theatre artivist raised in Nueva York. Her work centers and archives the stories, myths, and legends told by her family and the New York immigrant community. Her plays include A Step-by-Step Guide on How to Succeed in the Myth-Making Business (Lehman College, JCAL), How to Melt ICE (or How the Coyote Fell in Love with the Lizard Who Was Really a Butterfly) (New York Women’s Fund Grant, New Perspectives Theatre Company and Boundless Theater Company, Latin American Theater Award for Outstanding Playwriting), and In The Bronx Brown Girls Can See Stars Too (Egg & Spoon Incubate NYC, KCACTF Paula Vogel Playwriting Award and the Darrell Ayers National Playwriting Award). She was recently named one of six Culture and Narrative Fellows for The Opportunity Agenda, Amalia is proud to be an Inaugural The Lily’s Lorraine Hansberry Fellow and CUNY Mexican Studies Institute Lydia Mendoza Fellow. MFA, Columbia University.
