Playwright, Screenwriter, and Founding Artistic Director of CASA 0101 Theater — telling the stories of Latinas, immigrants, and Boyle Heights for over 30 years.
“Josefina was undocumented for thirteen years before she received Amnesty in 1987 — and became a U.S. Citizen in 1995.”
Born in San Luis Potosí, Mexico in 1969, Josefina López was five years old when her family migrated to Los Angeles and settled in Boyle Heights. She started writing at 17, and has since had over 150 productions of her plays staged across the country.
She is best known for authoring the play and co-writing the 2002 Sundance Audience Award-winning film Real Women Have Curves. A graduate of Columbia College Chicago with an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA's School of Theater, Film & Television, she has worked as a professional Screenwriter in Hollywood for over 30 years.
Josefina is the Founding Artistic Director of CASA 0101 Theater, where she has produced over 200 plays celebrating Latino, immigrant, LGBT, and BIPOC communities. She is currently adapting her play A Woman Named Gloria into a screenplay while working on her next musical.
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