Producer: AnaSofía is the Director of Creative & Civic Partnerships with Artists Repertory Theatre. She is a co-producer and host of the podcast, “The Collective Perspective: Reclaiming and Reshaping Theater”. As the former artistic associate at History Theatre, AnaSofía produced the Raw Stages and Next Stages new works workshops and festivals as well as the touring youth productions, among other responsibilities. As a former creative producer for ALMA-Alliance of Latinx Minnesota Artists, AnaSofía served as a liaison between individual Latinx theater artists and theater arts organizations on matters of representation and employment contracts as well as curated events that showcased local artists and celebrated the diversity of Latinx experiences.

Director: AnaSofía regularly directs performances and facilitates discussions on equity, diversity, and inclusion for Pillsbury House Theatre’s Breaking Ice Program. She has directed The Heresy of Love and Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train for the UMN/Guthrie BFA program. She has assistant directed The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at Mixed Blood Theatre and Native Gardens for The Guthrie Theater. For the Cornerstone Theatre Troupe, she directed Water by the Spoonful and References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot. While in residency at the University of Idaho, she directed several productions where she was the recipient of the Stage Directors and Choreographers national award through the Kennedy Center American Theater Festival.

Writer: AnaSofía’s play, Sabor, was featured by In The Margin Theatre as part of Teatro Milagro’s Ingenio 2020 New Latinx Play Development Festival. She has had a reading of her play, TENGO VOZ, at Mixed Blood Theatre. While in residency at the University of Idaho, three of her plays were produced: Amor del Alma, POLLUX, and EXOTIC. AnaSofía is also the author of “The Power Dynamics Series, from a Mixed-Race Latina’s perspective” for MinnesotaPlaylist where she defines, analyzes, and questions differing aspects of how power is divided and reflected within the theater arts industry. For additional publications, please visit MixedRaceLatina.com

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2023, Blanca was awarded the Best Lighting prize at the Carbonell for her outstanding work on El Huracán in Miami, Florida. Her versatility and creativity are evident in her contributions to various theatrical productions, including How to Make an American Son.

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She resides with her wife and daughter in Portland, Oregon and is currently preparing to make her first feature film entitled Mother of Color.

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He is a C0-Founder of the critically-acclaimed Furious Theatre Company in Los Angeles, for which he received the Pasadena Arts Council’s Gold Crown Award and the Debut Award from Back Stage West. He served as Co-Artistic Director there from from 2001-2010. On stage at Furious he originated the roles of Bill in Canned Peaches in Syrup and Clay in An Impending Rupture of the Belly (2007 Actor of the Year – Stage Scene LA). Regionally Eric played the role of Julie Gordon in Paradise Lost at the Tony Award-winning Intiman Theatre in Seattle. He also played the role of Don Weston in the short film Fifths.

Other Furious credits include Saturday Night at the Palace, Grace by Craig Wright, US Drag, The Fair Maid of the West Parts I & II, Scenes from the Big Picture II, Tearing the Loom, Mojo and The Playboy of the Western World. His work with other theatres includes Shhh! Art!! and Festen with Pasadena Playhouse Hothouse Reading Series, Of Mice and Men and Pygmalion.

He has also performed as an improviser at ImprovOlympic in Los Angeles on the house team Glass Onion, in Furious Late Night’s improvised news comedy show imMEDIAte Theatre, in the Improv Stunt Show Spectacular and with Freudian Slip, an improv troupe he co-founded and directed at Texas A&M University.

Television credits include HBO’s Succession and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Eric starred in the web series Lost Angeles and has been in several national commercials. He was also a series regular in the sitcom God Help Us, which was shot for the USC sitcom program under the guidance of directing teacher Peter Bonerz (Emmy-winning director of Murphy Brown) and writing teacher Jay Moriarty (co-creator of The Jeffersons).

As a filmmaker, Eric was named as an Official Artist of the New York Television Festival in 2014 and 2015, qualifying as a finalist in the A&E Unscripted Development Pipeline in 2014 and as a semifinalist for History Channel’s Unscripted Development Pipeline in 2015.

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Dutt is also a film director and producer having screened films at over 80 festivals worldwide including Sundance, LAFF, Outfest, Frameline, Cucalorous, NBCUniversal, BET, PBS/Latino and HBO. Her most recent short film, FOUND, brings voice to transracial adoption through fictional storytelling from the adoptee’s point of view, and is currently touring the festival circuit in conjunction with private events with adoption organizations across the country. Dutt directed TOO MANY BODIES, a socially driven music and dance piece advocating for gun reform, which was picked up by NoRAnow.org and Survivors Empowered and received numerous awards in music video and social justice categories. She directed 3 PUFFS OF GOLD, a magical realism piece about domestic violence, and was a finalist for New Filmmakers Los Angeles: On Location competition with her film “SNAPSHOT!” (2011) which explored Angelino’s and their diverse roots. In addition, Dutt directed a series of Sponsored and Original Content projects for Evite.com, commercials for Mr. Tummee, and a spec for Moet Chandon. Film Fellowships: Project Involve at Film Independent, SFFilm, and Trans Atlantic Partners with the Goethe Institut (Berlin).

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