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Tanya Saracho

(1949) Actor

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Tanya Saracho is an actor.

Quick Facts About Tanya Saracho

Born: November 30, 1949
Profession: Actor

About Tanya Saracho

Mexican-American actress, playwright and showrunner... | Tanya Selene Saracho is a Mexican-American actress, playwright, dramaturge and screenwriter. With a background in theater before writing for television, she co-founded Teatro Luna in 2000 and was its co-artistic director for ten years. She also co-founded the Alliance of Latinx Theater Artists (ALTA

Quotes by Tanya Saracho

I am not a quiet person.

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There is no 'generic' Latina.

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I'm obsessed with accents.

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I want to stay in Chicago.

Chicago

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I am so homesick every day of the week.

Day

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I didn't understand that TV writing wasn't writing; it was pitching.

Learning

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I always have something big enough to say as a playwright. It's storytelling.

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The big, radical thing that I'm trying to do is to portray Latinas as complex human beings.

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I'm sad about my theatre career, but I've also fallen a bit in love with TV!

Career

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Raul Castillo was my first high school boyfriend.

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I'm not a good business person when it comes to my writing.

Business

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Other people started taking me seriously before I took myself seriously.

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I'm queer - and queer, to me, is not being stuck in a binary and being kind of fluid.

Being

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We don't have a lot of narrative on TV or film, mainstream film, of brown queers. Latina queers, I can't think of…

Film

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I'm always in the car in L.A., so I see the people I work with - and, thank God, I adore the…

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Any time you have to move in two days, it's crazy. It's like, 'Who am I going to get to take care…

Cats

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When you get a bunch of Latinxs together, we get to handle our stories. A cultural shorthand happens.

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Nothing against resorts or Cancun or Carlos 'n Charlie's, but Guanajuato is different. If you want history, culture, and peace, it's perfect.

Cancun

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Pleasures. I had to cut them back so I can write. And it's worked! It so has. But I am the most…

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Putting on makeup before work is a meditative exercise. It incites me to think about how I'll tackle my day.

Day

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I don't think that 'Vida' is just for Latinos. I don't think 'One Day at a Time''s just for Latinos.

Day

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When I got to 'Looking,' I didn't know that you could write stuff and they would put it on TV. That was…

Boss

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Write about your experiences! When I moved to L.A., I didn't have any friends, and the office janitor was the person who…

Friends

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In TV, you're a 'writer for hire.' That means you're trying to guess what your boss wants and delivering that story. There's…

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I adore 'Broad City,' but the one Latino is queer for jokes. You see queerness of Latinos in this emasculated with an…

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Shouldn't you be able to tell your stories from your point of view? We're dealing with that with 'Looking' where some queers…

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I have 16 plays, and we don't ever do subtitles. You can't do subtitles in the theater, so I was like, 'I'm…

Actor

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The Latinas in this industry are really supportive and stick together. America Ferrera, Gina Rodriguez, Zoe Saldana, and Salma Hayek have all…

America

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A lot of the time, because we don't have many Latinx scenarios on the landscape, not just in television or film and…

Asian

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When you change media, perception is changed and then policy is changed.

Change

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The fact that I have a show on Starz, it's crazy. It's insane.

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I never wanted to be married. That was never a thing for me.

Marriage

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What I notice a lot about millennials is that they have agency over their sexuality.

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It's mountains. The air is crisp. It's peaceful. You don't get spring break in Guanajuato.

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I'm interested in people's darkness - and humor in the darkness.

Darkness

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I'm always writing. There's no stopping. It's just that you can't see it sometimes.

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I would like to do more millennial, Latina, complicated stories.

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I dress up cute sometimes to go to work, but TV writers don't! They just go however.

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You're on set more when you produce an episode, and it's long hours, but you learn so much.

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When I was in school, I didn't get exposed to Latino playwrights.

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