Gonzalez S., Silvia

The daughter of immigrants from Mexico, Silvia Gonzalez S. (Scherer) was born in San Fernando, CA, and grew up in the barrio of Pacoima, near Los Angeles. She attended Loyola Marymount University of Los Angeles, studied abroad in Rome, and graduated from Loyola University of Chicago. In 1989 her play Boxcar won at the Multicultural Playwright's Festival with the Seattle Group Theatre. Gonzalez has lived and worked in Arizona, Chicago--where she was a resident playwright with Chicago Dramatists Workshop--and Portland, Oregon. Other plays written by Gonzalez include: Alicia in wonder tierra (or, I can't eat goat head), Don't promise, Los matadores, The migrant farmworker's son, U got the look, and Waiting women.

From the description of Silvia Gonzalez S. papers, 1982-1994. (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 176648446