Press

Achievements & Honors:

	[The Best of OC] Las Directoras - OC Weekly 2009 Sara Guerrero & Elsa Martinez Phillips Forget the vagina talk and Chicana diatribes; Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble is forging an innovative theater experience that engagingly subverts any and all stereotypes about Latinas and theater. Read Full Article

	37th OC Human Relations Award (2008) "Outstanding Community Leader" OC Register Article Doug Irving May 1, 2008 Community Leader Award Write Up (page 4) May 2008 OC Human Relations Press Release Video

	"Best New Theater Troup" [The Best Of OC] 2007 This Santa Ana troupe is unabashedly political, talented and eager to look under rocks most people would prefer untouched, as proven by its inaugural production last year of The Mexican O.C. Culled from interviews with longtime OC residents, the piece was (and is) a triumphant blend of agitprop and studious oral history, an uncompromising examination of some of the more unsavory examples of the prejudice toward migrants that has existed in this county since long before Proposition 187 and amnesty marches. Most recently, the troupe staged 9ine Digits Away From My Dream, another oral-history project about undocumented students in the United States seeking college degrees. OC Weekly Article


2010 Productions
	Digging Up The Dirt Looking back at 2010 OC Theater: Love, or a Lack Thereof by Joel Beers OC Weekly / January 2011 OC Theatre 101: The best of 2010 by Jordan Young Examiner Los Angeles -Arts-Entertainment / January 2011 Santa Ana's Breath of Fire burrows deep in Cherríe Moraga's 'Digging Up the Dirt' by Jordan Young Examiner Los Angeles - Arts-Entertainment / August 2010 The L Word: Cherrie Moraga's 'Digging Up the Dirt' is ultimately a play about love by Joel Beers OC Weekly / August 2010


2009 Productions
	Miss Lebron La Remzcla Mention "5 Cool Things To Do for Latino Heritage Month" by Annabel Alverez Latino LA Article "Award-Winning Latino Playwright Coming to SoCal" by J. Mason

	New Works Festival 2009 Examiner Article "Playwrights, choreographers stage new works" by Jordon Young July 2009 OC Weekly Mention By Joel Beers July 2009


	When Nature Calls Examiner Article "When Nature Calls" at Santa Ana's Breath of Fire Theater by Jordan Young April 22, 2009


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	W.A.C. Iraq *W.A.C. Iraq Press Release*

	1st Annual New Works Festival OC Weekly Article "Stolen Babies! Ancient Greeks! Chicken sacrifices! All this and more at Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble's New Works Festival" by Joel Beers August 27, 2008

	Greetings From a Queer Senorita Latino LA "Come for the Free Tortillas" by Lisa Zion July 16, 2008 Uprising Radio Interview (KPFK) July 16, 2008 Pocho Hour of Power Radio Interview (KPFK) July 11, 2008 OC Weekly "Getting Wet With Monica Palacios Before Her 'Greetings From a Queer Señorita' Runs at Breath" by Dave Barton July 9, 2008 OC Weekly OC Weekly Summer Pick June 12, 2008

	Portrait of Ten Women Backstage Review\| by Eric Marchese June 3, 2008 OC Register Article Front Page! (also with video) Robabla Ruiz May 9, 2008 L.A. Time Article May 8, 2008 KPFK Interview with Portrait of 10 Women May 8, 2008 Coast Magazine Article May Issue


	OC Human Relations Award

	14 OC Weekly Review By Joel Beers March 6, 2008

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guilt anthology

OC Weekly Review Joel Beers
By Joel Beers
November 8, 2007

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	Rocks in my Salsa LA Weekly Theater Pick of the Week October 4, 2006

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The "Mexican" OC:
Triumphs and Contributions of the Mexican American Community

OC Register Latino Notebook
By Celeste Navejas
June 1, 2006
(Second entry)

LA Times Mention
May 8, 2006

OC Register Recommendation
"El Centro de Mexico hosts children's celebration"
By Marla Jo Fisher
April 28, 2006

KPFK Radio Interview
April 27, 2006

OC Weekly Review
By Joel Beers
April 13, 2006

OC Register Latino Notebook
By Rosabla Ruiz
April 13, 2006
(Third entry)

OTHER HONORS
* June 2008 performance of the scene "Benvenidos y Sayonara"
Presented at the Lincoln Center Institute
Hosted by South Coast Repertory

* 2007 Performances Presented at Chapman University
As part of the Mendez v. Westminster 60th Anniversary Celebration

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