In Front of Your Eyes 2024
Performance Festival Presents:
Tina D’Elia’s
The Break Up! A Latina Queer Torch Song
at The Marsh San Francisco Mainstage
Written & Performed by Tina D’Elia
Directed by Mary Guzmán
Developed with David Ford
Music by Aden Gray & Peter D’Elia
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Saturday, August 10 at 8:30pm
Opener: Irma Herrera
Sunday, August 11 at 1:00pm
Opener: Betsy Murphy
About the Festival
In Front of Your Eyes Performance Festival will feature developing works from women and nonbinary performers and playwrights. The festival will take place in both San Francisco and Berkeley. San Francisco will feature solo shows, and Berkeley will feature ensemble shows.
About the Show
Trina Maria thought she had found her dream rom-com butch, but life had other plans. When yelling at a pigeon doesn’t bring her the relief she seeks, she embarks on a journey up a steep hill to join a mystical break-up support group filled with quirky queer misfits.
Ticket Information
Tickets: $15 – $35 General Seating sliding scale | $50 & $100 Reserved Seating
Online ticket sales close 2 hours before each performance,
and additional tickets may be available for purchase at the door.
No Intermission | Ages 16+
Please do not bring infants to the show
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About the Artistic Crew
Tina D’Elia (Playwright and Performer) is a mixed-race Mexican queer/lesbian SAG-AFTRA actor, award-winning solo performer, co-screenwriter, casting director, and producer. Currently developing her fifth solo show, The Break-Up! A Latina Queer Torch Song, for its West Coast premiere at The Brava Theater Cabaret in December 2024, D’Elia has received accolades such as the Best of Fringe and Best of Sold-Out Shows for The Rita Hayworth of this Generation at the San Francisco Fringe Festival in 2015. She has performed at venues including the National Queer Arts Festival, The Marsh, and Stage Werx. Her film and TV credits include “Earth Mama,” “The Pursuit of Happyness,” “Sense8,” “Dyke Central,” “Chosen Fam,” and “Assigned Female at Birth.” Recognized in Go Magazine’s “100 Women We Love” and Curve Magazine’s Power List, she has also received a Best Actress Award and Diversity Casting Award from the Equality International Film Festival and a Frameline33 Audience Award for co-screenwriting the short film “Lucha.”
Mary Guzmán (Director) was selected for Directors Lab West, an intensive program hosted by Pasadena Playhouse to inspire the future of American Theatre. She has directed at theater companies including Crowded Fire, Shotgun Players, Theatre Rhinoceros, and The Marsh. A highlight of her career includes directing Enrique Urueta’s award-winning Learn to be Latina at Impact Theatre in Berkeley. Guzmán has also directed acclaimed one-person shows, including Julia Jackson‘s Children are Forever: All Sales are Final, which won the Best Non-Fiction Show Award at the United Solo Festival, and Tina D’Elia’s The Rita Hayworth of this Generation, which won Best of Sold-Out Show and Best of at the San Francisco Fringe Festival.
Openers
August 10 – Irma Herrera’s Class Migrant: De Aquí y De Allá
During my South Texas childhood, picking cotton was a “Mexican job” (and a “Black job,” too!). Cotton was King and the high school mascot of the neighboring town: The Cottonpickers. To this date, locals refuse to change it — “no shame in honest work,” they say. I’m assigned to a random table at a lawyer’s luncheon and guests are reminiscing about the summer camps of their childhoods. The summer I was 12 years old, my parents made us pick cotton; they wanted us to know how hard they had worked as kids. Do I tell these professional colleagues about this memorable summer?
August 11 – Betsy Murphy’s Do You Need a Bag?
Do You Need A Bag is a poignant story of grief, grace, and glimmers of the afterlife when a mother sets out to collect her 27-year-old son’s ashes after his death from a fentanyl-laced drug. In 2022, over 200 people a day in the U.S. died from fentanyl. One was Betsy Murphy’s son, Charlie.