Can I Just Call You Dr. C?
Re: Your work is done That was the subject line in the email I received earlier this week from my friend and colleague Eva Paterson. Ha!...
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Writing is an essential part of my life that I'm happy to share.
Please take a look!
Irma Herrera
Oct 7, 20194 min read
15 Minutes of Fame
Last week I had the honor of serving as the Emcee at the Awards Ceremony for the California ChangeLawyers Leaders Summit. Click here to...
Irma Herrera
Sep 8, 20194 min read
Pay It Forward
"Everyone please go see this show! You hear people say “Art is Resistance” . . . well this definitely fits that bill. You are taken on a...
Irma Herrera
Sep 2, 20195 min read
Colorism
In Alice Walker’s 1983 book, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose, she coined the term “colorism” to define a form of...
Irma Herrera
Aug 18, 20192 min read
Who Is Safe?
The version of my play that was on stage for five months through the end of March 2019 poses a series of questions (paraphrased here)....
Irma Herrera
Mar 30, 20194 min read
It’s a Wrap!
March is my birthday month, and I recently came upon this photo of last year's b'day cake with a line from my show -- you can remember my...
Irma Herrera
Mar 9, 20193 min read
Women Leading the Way
March 8 -- it's International Women's Day, and women are leading and have been leading the way in so many arenas, too often without...
Irma Herrera
Feb 27, 20193 min read
Homestretch – Final Weeks in Berkeley
It has been such an honor and joy to present my one-woman show, Why Would I Mispronounce My Own Name? in the San Francisco Bay Area these...
Irma Herrera
Feb 15, 20194 min read
¿Hablas Español?
Topping the list of the many things I am grateful for is being a bilingual Spanish speaker. This was the language of our home and there...
Irma Herrera
Feb 7, 20195 min read
Talkback Heaven
“The final line is spoken, the audience applauds, the actors take their bows. But at an increasing number of theaters, the night isn’t...
Irma Herrera
Jan 10, 20193 min read
STOP Calling it TIA-Wanna
So many cities in the United States have names from languages other than English. Native American languages gave us Chicago, Milwaukee,...
Irma Herrera
Dec 6, 20186 min read
Show Extended 'thru 1/26
Yippee, My Show Got Extended Through January 26, 2019 Thanks to the wonderful support of all y’all who have attended my show, and/or told...
Irma Herrera
Nov 23, 20185 min read
Thanks. Gracias.
My one-woman show, Why Would I Mispronounce My Own Name? has been on stage at The Marsh Theater in San Francisco almost a month. Thank...
Irma Herrera
Oct 23, 20184 min read
It's Showtime
Why Would I Mispronounce My Own Name? That’s me, and my director Rebecca Fisher, in front of The Marsh Theater before our tech rehearsal...
Irma Herrera
Sep 26, 20183 min read
One-Month Countdown
One month from today, October 25th, Why Would I Mispronounce My Own Name? opens for a seven-week run at San Francisco's Marsh Theater. I...
Irma Herrera
Sep 16, 20185 min read
Did I Sound "Illegal"?
Six years ago, I was co-directing the Women Immigrants Project at New America Media in San Francisco. I called a state legislator in...
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