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IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Adelina Anthony (she/they) is originally from the Payaya Territories (San Antonio, Tejas). She is a critically acclaimed and award-winning Two Spirit Xicana lesbian actor, writer, director, producer, and teaching artist. Along with Marisa Becerra, they co-founded AdeRisa Productions in 2012 as vehicle to support ...
- Actress, Director, Writer
- On How She Got Her Start
- On How She Got to La
- On What Bruising For Besos Is Really About
- On Why Using Humor Became Necessary in This Story
- On Making A Deeply Personal But Highly Fictional Film
- On Being A Queer Chicana Artist
- On What She Hopes The Audience Will Take Away from The Film
I started as an actor and I was doing work as an actor and then because of my budding lesbianism… I landed in Nueva York… but that wasn’t a scene for me cuz like I was a Chicana, Tejana. I got a lot of “¿Pero que tu eres, Colombiana?” and they just looked at me like “You’re this foreign it.” I loved that time because I got exposed to Dominicanos, B...
I knew being there that NY was not going to work for me and at the time, I was in my early twenties, I realized how much I had been shaped by Tejas. It’s like expansive cielo. In NY it’s like looking up at Tetris pieces. I was missing my cultura. I can still remember my comadres saying “Ok Adelina, you can’t say y’all here” and I was like “What?“ “...
There’s a long history with it. Precisely because it does come from the semilla of embodied knowing of violence within a household. It’s essentially looking at this young queer chicana protagonist, trying to understand how domestic violence in her household is being replayed in her adult life. Yoli’s addiction is mujeres. And whether queer or not w...
They are like the ying and the yang. As an artist, I’m always trying to bring in both. Humor is absolutely necessary in Bruising for Besos because if not it would be too harsh of a story to take in. Because I come from the world of comedy, I really try to add these moments of respite. These two mujeres ignite in each other unresolved familial histo...
It is deeply personal and highly fictional. One of the things that happens to us as writers of color is that folks always wanna go like, “Oh, that’s autobiographical.” It’s as if we never re-edited, transformed or imagined our work. We’re still working at a political spectrum where the white writer, the one that has been historically given the priv...
As POC and women we are always expected to fall into the passive role and to follow that. It’s like lets get our normative protagonist and let’s go on his journey. And we’re supposed to relate and quite often we do but the inverse isn’t true because historically and politically speaking our stories haven’t been given the space to be out in the worl...
It comes back to it needs to be medicine for us and sometimes the medicine is bitter, sometimes the medicine is candy coated. And it feels good, but if I only have so many days on this planet, if I’m just one artist who’s trying to work in this very specific framework then I want my work to matter. I really want to create films that we’re going to ...
Dec 27, 2013 · Adelina Anthony’s new play “The Beast of Times” will be staged during a special encore performance at the Renberg Theater at the Gay and Lesbian Center in Hollywood the weekend of Friday, January 31, 2014 through Sunday, February 2 2014 at 8 p.m.
Dec 14, 2022 · Anthony, who is an accredited writer and director beyond their acting repertoire, went on to produce a 12-minute short film titled "The Daily War" after starring as Rocky in "Vida."
- Melissa Santoyo
Sep 9, 2016 · This interview explores how performing artist, activist, writer, director, performer Adelina Anthony stages queer women of color affects as a complex terrain to mobilize a decolonial imaginary. Anthony's characters are complex, contradictory, surly, and resilient with whom audience members connect and feel deeply.
- Adelina Anthony, Aimee Carrillo Rowe
- 2017
Adelina Anthony (Writer/Director) is a critically acclaimed and award-winning queer Xicana two-spirit lesbian artista who hails originally from San Antonio, Texas. She works in various mediums and is best known for her provocative, comedic solo performances. Along with Marisa Becerra, she co-founded AdeRisa Productions, and returned to film as ...
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Adelina Anthony. Fellowship. I am known as a solo performer, filmmaker, creative writer and theatre artist. I come primarily from a lineage of Xicana Indigenous lesbian feminist inquiry and aesthetics. My work finds ways to explore the intersectional needs of my communities: Two Spirit, LGBTQIA+/people of color, womyn, immigrants, ancestral and ...
