Born and raised in East LA, Evelina Fernández writes about the Mexican diaspora in the U.S. She is a founder and resident playwright at the Latino Theater Company @ The LATC. Her plays include Sleep with the Angels; The Mother of Henry (L.A. Drama Critic’s Circle Award, L.A. Times Critic’s Choice); A Mexican Trilogy: Faith, Hope & Charity (L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award), published by Samuel French; Solitude (L.A. Times Critic's Choice); Dementia (L.A. Times Critic’s Choice, GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Theater Production in Los Angeles); La Virgen de Guadalupe; Dios Inantzin (featured in both the L.A. Times and the N.Y. Times); Premeditation; and the Premeditation Podcast. Other plays include Sleep with the Angels, Luminarias, La Olla and Liz Estrada in the City of Angels. Next up: The Storyteller in spring 2026 at LTC and her adaptation of Antigone (Antigone: In the Language of Kings) at The Getty Villa in summer 2026.
Blow Away the Clouds
by Evelina Fernández
directed by José Luis Valenzuela
an SCR commission
Sunday, May 3, at 10:30 a.m.
Julianne Argyros Stage
$24
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Peter & Joy Sloan
Julia Voce
Milagros is a good wife, works hard and follows church rules…and her life in a small Arizona mining town is about to be turned upside down. As her friends and their troubles force her to stray from her rigid beliefs, Milagros finds a new sense of freedom in the secrets they keep—and the power of sisterhood.
Recommendation: Ages 16+
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