D’Elia’s solo show: The Rita Hayworth of this Generation, won “Best of Fringe” (2015) and won “Best of Sold-Out Shows” at the San Francisco Fringe Festival (2015). Her next shows are October 27th and 29th. Tina is honored to be performing her 4th solo show Overlooked Latina, directed by Mary Guzmán and developed with David Ford, at The Marsh (San Francisco) this month. D’Elia is also the program director of the LezWritesBTQ program with 3Girls Theatre. TINA D’ELIA (She/Her) is a Bay Area lesbian/queer, mixed-race Mexican artist and small business owner, teacher, and coach and an award-winning solo performer, actor, co-screenwriter, and casting director.

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It’s no wonder that themes of repression of women and minorities are omnipresent in her work. She heard about the boy who was killed for giving a blow job.

She watched, trembling at six, as hooded members of the KKK burned a giant cross. She feared for her life at home with mentally ill parents and out in the rural world of rednecks, where members of the LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities were killed for sport.

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