Every month on The Subtext, Brian speaks with a playwright about life, writing, and no matter itches we’re scratching. On this episode, Brian visited The Understudy drama e book store in Chicago, to file an episode dwell in entrance of an viewers with visitor Nancy Garcia Loza.

Nancy García Loza is a pocha playwright rooted in Chicago and Jalisco, México. Her audio drama BRAVA: a folktale con música launched Make-Consider Affiliation’s inaugural season (with point out from The New York Instances), receiving nominations in six classes on the 2019 ALTA Awards, together with: The María Irene Fornés New Play Award and successful within the class of Excellent Unique Music in a Play for her tune “Corrido de la Brava.” She is a two-time alumna of the nationwide Fornés Playwriting Workshop. She has loved residencies with: The New Concord Challenge, Goodman Playwrights Unit, Oregon Shakespeare Pageant Black Swan Lab, SPACE on Ryder Farm Institutional Residency, Chicago Dramatists, and extra.

Her work has additionally been supported by: Paramount Theatre (at the moment in improvement with Bull: a love story, world premiere 2022), Teatro Leyden (Wave, TYA world premiere 2021), Damaged Nostril Theatre, Steppenwolf LookOut Sequence, Chicago Theatre Marathon, Breath of Fireplace Latina Theater Ensemble, Collaboraction, UIUC Krannert Middle for the Performing Arts, and extra. A self-taught playwright, Nancy talks about stumbling into performs by first studying works by Maria Irene Fornes and Tennessee Williams. These performs impressed her love of dialogue, however it took her a few years to seek out herself writing performs, which as she says she “writes from intuition.”

Nancy is the eldest daughter of seven youngsters born to Mexican immigrants. She describes herself because the keeper of tales in her huge household and on this episode talks in regards to the duty she feels on this position and the way these tales manifest as performs. Coming from a big inventive household, she discusses how her household interacts along with her work, and the way it at occasions has led to disruptions in household relationships. Within the case of her play Rust, Nancy shares the intentional separation of the work from her household; because of the private nature of the play’s story she wanted to create and current it with out her dad and mom in attendance.