In this episode, two well-established writers and actors, Diana Burbano and Peppur Chambers-Soraci, share their experiences as female artists of color.
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About Peppur Chamburs-Soraci
PEPPUR CHAMBERS is an international writer/producer/educator. A member of Circle X Emerging Playwrights Group, Moving Arts MADLab, and Antaeus Playwrights Lab, she uses her voice to scream, shout or sing about women’s issues, social justice and love. Her radio play, End of the Line, examines about human trafficking and was featured in Antaeus Theatre Company’s The Zip Code Plays Season Two. Her plays For the Love of You, House Rules, The Build UP, Dick & Jayne Get A Life and one-woman show, Harlem’s Awakening: Storytelling Live have been produced in Los Angeles and Prague. A published novella author, she’s also recently directed a short film she co-wrote, Do Something, shot during the pandemic, socially distanced and entirely on iPhones. Learn more at penandpeppur.com where she tells stories of heroes, including her own.
About Diana Burbano
Diana Burbano, a Colombian immigrant, is a playwright, an Equity actor, and a teaching artist at South Coast Repertory and Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble. Diana’s play Ghosts of Bogota, won the Nu Voices festival at Actors Theatre of Charlotte in 2019. Ghosts was commissioned and debuted at Alter Theater in the Bay Area in Feb 2020. Sapience, was a Playground-SF 2020, Winner and was featured at Latinx Theatre Festival, San Diego Rep 2020. Fabulous Monsters, a Kilroys selection was to premiere at Playwrights Arena in 2020 (postponed). She was in Center Theatre Group’s 2018-19 Writers Workshop cohort and is in the Geffen’s Writers Lab in 20-21. She has worked on projects with South Coast Repertory, Artists Repertory Theatre, Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble and Center Theatre Group and Livermore Shakespeare Festival.
Diana recently played Amalia in Jose Cruz Gonzales' American Mariachi at South Coast Repertory and Arizona Theatre Company, and Marisela in La Ruta at Artists Repertory. You can also see her as Viv the Punk in the cult musical Isle of Lesbos. She is the current Dramatists Guild Rep for Southern California. www.dianaburbano.com