About Angeles
Maria Angeles Romero was born on the
Mexican-American border and has been raised in two cultures.
She now resides in Columbus, Ohio and is a performance artist,
writer and activist whose work meditates on the new lexicon
of contemporary Latino culture and its political relations
to Anglo and inter-national cultures.
After several years of study at University of Texas-Austin (political science), Angeles began her own creative work, performed in workshops with Deborah Hay, made costumes, wrote plays, acted in films and music videos, and started to perform with AlienNation Co. in "between the places" (February 1998), for which she wrote the script.
After that she wrote, directed, and performed in "A las cinco te desmayo," a melodrama/parody dedicated to the Cinco de Mayo celebration at the Cultural Center in Austin, Texas. In the fall of 1998 she collaborated with AlienNation Co. on the creation of the migbot installation/performance at Winter Street Art Center, and she performed the role she created again at the "fishgarden" installation during the Vogelfrei Festival in Darmstadt, Germany. In the fall of 1999, she wrote the libretto and performed the lead role in the new opera MIRAK, premiered by Aliennation Co. at DiverseWorks in Houston.
In 2003 she completed her MFA in theatre
at Ohio State University, where she performed in a guest role
with da da
kamera at the Wexner
Center for the Arts. Her latest play, Sueño
based on the life of Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz, premiered
at Mount Hall Theatre in Columbus in March, 2003.
Angeles recently presented el entrecejo/the brow at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio as part of their Latino Celebration Month. She was recently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio State, contines to tour internationally with her performances and is developing a new solo piece about Amelia Earhart.
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