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Virginia Grise is a Chicana cultural worker, writer, performer, and teacher from San Antonio, Texas. She has taught writing in the juvenile correction system and has facilitated organizing efforts among women, immigrant, Chicano, working class and queer youth.

The Panza Monologues, her one-woman performance piece, was published by Evelyn Street Press and has toured throughout the Southwest. As a member of Accion Zapatista, she traveled to Chiapas Mexico as a peace observer and edited a volume of Zapatista communiqués entitled Conversations with Don Durito, published by Autonomedia Press. Virginia is currently seeking her MFA in Writing for Performance at the California Institute of Arts, under the mentorship of Carl Hancock Rux.

Mira Kingsley’s directing and choreography has been seen at REDCAT (Daughter of a Cuban Revolutionary, Circle Course) The Bam Next Wave Festival (Once Upon a Time in Chinese America), The Kitchen (Warrior Sisters), The Edinburgh Fringe Festival (The Cantata For Acquiescence), The 24th Street Theater (Good Night), The Guggenheim Museum Works in Process Series, ASU’s Gammage Auditorium, The John Harms Center for the Arts, The Seattle International Children’s Festival, HERE, The Yard, Joyce Soho, and The 24th Street Theater among others. She is currently working with Jazz musician Fred Ho on, Dragon Vs Eagle, for the BAM Next Wave Festival in “09”. As an actress and dancer she has performed all over the place including Broadway, Carnegie Hall, and The Metropolitan Opera. Mira is a recipient of the Jacob K Javits Fellowship in Theater and has a double Masters degree in Theater Direction and Choreography from California Institute of the Arts where she currently teaches Dance Theatre.