Guadalupe Cardona

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@lupe_teaches_ethnic_studies (IG)

Guadalupe Cardona has been an Ethnic Studies and Theatre educator for 23 years.  She is dedicated to developing critical curriculum and culturally relevant artivism to transform the world by fusing community cultural knowledge with a focus on autobiographical counter-narrative. 

Guadalupe is chair of the Association of Raza Educators (LA), co-founder of XOCHITL LA, member of Ethnic Studies Now Coalition, and founding member of the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Coalition. 

She earned a BA in Chicanx and Latin American Studies from UCLA and a MA in Curriculum/Instruction, Language and Literacy from ASU.  She is now pursuing a doctorate in Educational Leadership at CSUN. Guadalupe has spent her life and career re-membering herself and helps others on their quest to tell their own stories.

Estela Garcia

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@estelag6 (IG)

A Los Angeles born native, Estela Garcia is a performer, movement coach, deviser, community engagement specialist, mask maker, teacher and tinkerer of materials. She received her MFA from Dell'Arte in ensemble based physical theatre. In addition to being Movement faculty at CalArts, Garcia is a resident teaching artist for Center Theatre Group.

Most recently, she directed and co-devised “Hija de mi Madre”(Daughter of my Mother), a short mask play for Short+Sweet Hollywood Latinx festival. It won Best of Fest, Best Writing and Best Acting awards.

Estela served as Puppetry Director for South Coast Rep’s The Long Road Today, most recently she was Movement Director for “Born in Chaos” for TheatreWorkers Project, a community based play featuring formally incarcerated individuals in college. She collaborated as Movement Director and/or Assistant Director on numerous award winning productions with Rogue Artists Ensemble. Additionally, Garcia worked alongside Kinan Valdez as AD on Popol Vuh: Heart of Heaven, co-produced by Center Theatre Group and El Teatro Campesino.

Garcia is best known for her portrayal of surrealist painter Remedios Varo in a play by the same name that she created, last presented at 2018's [LAX] Performance Festival. She played Josefina in Mojada by Luis Alfaro for Center Theatre Group’s partnership for the Digital Stage. Her experimental short film TRYING can be found on The Music Center's website as part of the For the Love of L.A. series.

Other notable acting credits include Esperanza in House on Mango Street at Greenway Court Theatre, Mother in Mourning of All Our Sons at Theatre At the Museum by Moving Arts at LACMA, and 14 at Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre at University of Michigan.

She has been a guest artist at Cal State LA, The University of Irvine, Cal State Northridge, ELACC and East LA Magnet, where she helped lead the creation of Ensemble Created Devised Work. This winter she was a visiting faculty at her alma mater DAI School of Physical Theatre where she taught a two-week Winter Intensive.

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