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LA LISTA: A Latinx Writers Pod

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In-depth talks with Latino/a/x/e writers on life, career, storytelling & identity. Host @carnitasbae
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Angela M. Sánchez shares growing up Chicanx in Los Angeles, how experiencing homelessness as a teenager shaped her commitment to telling stories about people too often overlooked, finding her creative voice through anime, comics, and fanfiction, going from education and philanthropy to building community with @latinxinanimation, writing for Primos, Dora, and the PAW Patrol universe, and turning a Los Angeles strip mall into a modern folktale with her animated short Spin Cycle.

@angelamsanchez.writer 🇲🇽 by @lalistapodcast

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Christopher Moncayo-Torres shares growing up Ecuadorian American in Queens as a recovering no sabo and latchkey kid, discovering writing through college creative writing classes and New York theater spaces, building community through @mothstories and @failbetterarts, turning his relationship with his dad into the Hollywood Fringe show No Sabo, and bringing both parents onstage in Before It’s Too Late to explore family, language, loneliness, and what it means to be seen.

@christopherfromqueens 🇪🇨 by @lalistapodcast

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Natalia Mejía shares growing up in Mexico City, starting her TV career straight out of college writing Mexican telenovelas, moving to Los Angeles to get her MFA at UCLA and learn to write in English while keeping her voice, working in U.S. rooms like Snowfall and FBI: International, and exploring motherhood, contradiction, and women caught between worlds in her work.

@natmejiac 🇲🇽 by @lalistapodcast

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Dylan Guerra shares growing up queer and Colombian in Miami, being raised by artist parents in a world of improv, stand-up, and DIY theater, finding his voice after moving to New York and writing the wildly personal solo show Find Him, getting staffed on The Other Two, and using ghosts, monsters, grief, comedy, and queer Latine mythos to build his own version of American folktale.

@dylanguerra 🇨🇴 by @lalistapodcast

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Fiorella Vescovi shares growing up in Montevideo, Uruguay, feeling trapped until sports opened a path to the U.S., driving from Missouri to Los Angeles with emo music and black nails, finding herself beyond acting by falling in love with writing and directing, joining the queer series And Also With You, and turning her father’s experience during Uruguay’s dictatorship into the tender LALIFF/Netflix-supported short Pilotos de Papel.

@fiorellavescovi 🇺🇾 by @lalistapodcast

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Jon-Alexander Genson shares growing up Mexican-American in northern Illinois, joining the Army to escape his hometown before a deployment to Guantanamo Bay helped him start accepting who he was, studying creative writing at Illinois State, breaking in through the Writers Guild Foundation’s Veteran Writing Project and Support Staff Training Program, co-writing an episode of FBI: Most Wanted, and exploring masculinity, shame, and outsiders stumbling toward self-awareness in his work.

@jon.alexander.genson 🇲🇽 by @lalistapodcast

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Lisa Quintela shares growing up Cuban-American between New Jersey, Miami, and New York, how her parents’ harrowing escape from Cuba shaped her drive and storytelling, moving from Tisch-trained actor to journalist to lawyer before writing a pilot about her family that brought her to LA, breaking into TV on The L Word: Generation Q, and using her legal background and love of exposing hidden rot in shows like The Lincoln Lawyer and CBS’s Matlock. by @lalistapodcast

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Eugene Garcia-Cross shares growing up half Puerto Rican in Erie, Pennsylvania, feeling like the Latino kid in his hometown and the gringo cousin in Puerto Rico, trading a decade in academia and fiction writing for a last-chance leap into TV writing, breaking in through the NBC Writers Program and writer’s PA jobs, and finding his old-school sitcom dream on NBC’s Happy’s Place.

@eugenecross 🇵🇷 by @lalistapodcast

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3 months ago

Michelle Salcedo shares growing up Cuban and Ecuadorian in Miami, turning her parents’ immigrant love story into creative fuel, finding her voice through years of writing features at the library, making her Sundance-supported short ‘Cinnamon Skin,’ breaking into action with her feature ‘Switch and Bait,’ and exploring why her work keeps returning to underestimated heroes, complicated morality, and the cost of freedom.

@michellesalcedofarnham 🇨🇺 🇪🇨 by @lalistapodcast

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4 months ago

Alberto Roldán shares growing up Puerto Rican in rural central Pennsylvania, having his artistic world cracked open by Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, detouring through Northwestern, NPR, and political work, navigating the long road to his first staff job, learning when to let the clown play before the professor takes over, and bringing his love of weird, thoughtful entertainment to Apple TV’s Widow’s Bay. by @lalistapodcast

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4 months ago

Christina Piña shares growing up in a loud Cuban-American Miami household, secretly applying to USC against her dad’s wishes, cutting her teeth through years of assistant jobs before breaking in through the Paramount Writers Mentoring Program, rising from staff writer to supervising producer, breaking down strategies for how Latino writers can survive in a shifting industry, and writing on the new Miami-set NBC/Peacock series M.I.A.!

@aka_ms.electric 🇨🇺 by @lalistapodcast

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Philippe Bowgen shares growing up between Peruvian and British cultures in wealthy, white Connecticut, hiding his sexuality at an all-boys prep school while striving to excel at everything, abandoning a path to diplomacy for acting and writing, and how his obsession with messy families, identity, and belonging inspired The Set Up, a scripted podcast from Sonoro and iHeartRadio.

@philippebowgen 🇵🇪 by @lalistapodcast

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