Theatre Maker
September 2019
Had a great summer. Got a National Performance Network Creation Award to write Antigone at the Border, my adaptation of the Greek classic. Shout out to the co-commissioners: International Sonoran Desert Alliance, Milagro Theatre, and Su Teatro... AND to the collaborating Phoenix based partners Teatro Bravo and Aliento.
Remembering a Neighborhood Long Gone in Barrio Stories.
American Theatre Magazine
Borderlands Nails Controversy with "MAS"
Arizona Daily Star
Press
Current/Upcoming Projects
Also super excited to be getting on stage this fall in the role of ANIBAL DE LA LUNA in José Rivera's Cloud Techtonics, produced at Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre.
Marc David Pinate
East Bay Express
PUTO: The Almost Naked, Almost Communist Play
Chicago Remezcla
email: pinate39@gmail.com
soundcloud: Native Son
Playwrights Aim to Shine Light on Tucson's Mexican American Studies Fight
Arizona Daily Star
Borderlands project is all about Barrio Anita's history, culture, people
Arizona Daily Star
I make theatre as healing ritual...
creating liminal spaces, playing with form and physicality to manifest moments of beauty and affect. Through a poetry of movement and rhythm, a theatricality of imagery and ritual, my work often investigates the infusion of 'the sacred' in performance. My site specific and community based work strives to rewrite the narrative of people and places as a step to co-creating a better reality.
I'm also an educator, actor and musician
with an MFA in directing from The Theatre School at DePaul University and nine years of university teaching experience.
Some theaters I've had the pleasure to work at include Steppenwolf (Chicago), Campo Santo (San Francisco), The Magic (SF), Arizona Theater (Tucson), Borderlands Theater (Tucson), and American Theatre Co (Chicago).
Their Dogs Came With Them
October 2019
Glad to be working with fellow radical theatre maker Virgina Grise (Barrio Stories , 2016) on this adaptation of the novel by Helena Viramontes.
What happens to a community, and the people that live there, when a series of four intersecting freeways are built right through the heart of their neighborhood? More info here.
Cloud Techtonics
November 2019
So super stoked to be acting in this Jose Rivera classic being produced at Scoundrel & Scamp Theater in Tucson. Read about it here.
Barrio Stories Nogales
April 2020
Woohoo!!! Thanks to the commissioning support of the Southwest Folklife Alliance along with support from an NEA Our Town grant, Arizona Humanities, and the UA Confluence Center through a Mellon Foundation grant - the Borderlands ensemble team and I will be excavating the history and heritage of the border city of Nogales, AZ ,culminating in a large scale heritage festival!