ATC debut. Fernández has built a powerful body of work that amplifies the Mexican diaspora with depth, humor, history, and heart. An award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and actor, she is known for creating stories that move across generations, borders, and memory. She received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Writing of a World Premiere Play for A Mexican Trilogy, published by Samuel French, and again for The Mother of Henry in 2019. Her plays have repeatedly earned critical acclaim, including Solitude (2009), Dementia (2010) and her beloved holiday pageant play, La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin, which has been featured in both the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. She also co-wrote Whittier Boulevard with her colleagues at the Latino Theater Company. Her most recent play, The Storyteller of East L.A., commissioned by Latino Theater Company’s Circle of Imaginistas, was extended twice by popular demand at the LATC and received stellar reviews. Fernández was part of the Center Theatre Group Writers’ Workshop and is currently developing Blow Away the Clouds at South Coast Repertory. Her adaptation, Antigone: In the Language of Kings, will open at the Getty Villa outdoor amphitheater in September 2026.
