About
Alisha Espinosa is an Afro-Boricua actor-playwright and Producing Artistic Director for the Latinx Playwrights Circle. She is a recipient of a Creatives Rebuild New York Artist Employment Grant. A selection of her work can be found on the New Play Exchange Network, including The Language of the Unheard, which was a 2021 Eugene O’Neill Finalist. Upcoming: Twelfth Night at St. Louis Shakespeare Festival and Hedgebrook Residency (Fall 2023). Residencies: Saltonstall 2023; Audrey Residency ’22 – ’23 (New Georges); Early Career Writers Group ’21 – ’22 (Clubbed Thumb); First Stage Residency 2019 (Drama League); Diversity Cohort 2018 (NY Shakespeare Exchange). Select Acting Credits: blooms (EST), A Skeptic & A Bruja (Urbanite), Seize the King (Classical Theatre of Harlem), Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (WP Theatre), Alma (Old Globe), Hamlet (Stage One), Shakespeare the Remix (Capital Rep), Much Ado About Nothing (KY Shakespeare). alishaespinosa.com | @la.espi | MFA UMKC