Nilsa Reyna (she/her)
Nilsa Reyna is a third generation Mexican-American and grew up in San Juan, Texas. She co-founded DIEZ, South Texas New Play Festival at South Texas College, was part of the founding ensemble of Teatro Luna, and served as Founder/Artistic Director of Chicago Fusion Theatre.
Select Actor Credits: Día de la Sirena (The SolProject/Pregones/PRTT); Re-Vitalized (Cimientos Play Development at IATI Theatre); Miss Irrelevant (The Theatre Collective); Indifference (John Chatterton/Midtown International Theatre Festival); Zapata! Tiger of Morelos (Moose Hall Theatre/Inwood Shakespeare Festival); Las Hermanas Padilla; The Boy in Black; Proof; bobrauschenbergamerica (Chicago Fusion Theatre); Lorca in a Green Dress; The Other Shore (Halcyon Theatre). Select Films: Scarlett and the Sea Creature, Limpia; Adulting; Runaway Overture.
Productions: 6th and 7th Annual INTAR One-Minute Play Festivals. Workshops and development of full length plays: The Bride of Moyamoya (The Road Theatre Company); Legends of Texas (South Texas New Play Festival; Latinx Playwrights Circle/Primary Stages; Frank Silvera Writers’ Workshop; Lone Star Theatre; The PlayGround Experiment); Stroke Vagina, a Moyamoya Story (Daughters of Troy; Rising Sun Performance Company/Governor’s Island; Lone Star Theatre; Monarch Theater). She’s based in Los Angeles and is a proud member of Latinx Playwrights Circle, The PlayGround Experiment, Dramatists Guild, and SAG-AFTRA. Connect at: @nilsareyna.
