Claudette Colvin: Redux
Today is the anniversary of Claudette Colvin's arrest. On March 2, 1955, the 15-year old refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery,...
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Irma Herrera
Nov 27, 20194 min read
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!...
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
Jul 20, 20195 min read
Noire
The poster caught my eye, so I crossed the street to take a closer look. An outsized young girl sits on top of a yellow bus that looked...
Irma Herrera
May 20, 20193 min read
Identidad
Identity Definition Merriam-Webster 1. a: The distinguishing character or personality of an individual b: The relation established by...
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
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
Jan 21, 20195 min read
Berkeley Bound
After a 13-week run at San Francisco’s Marsh Theater, Why Would I Mispronounce My Own Name? is going to Berkeley for eight-weeks starting...
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
Aug 25, 20183 min read
Two-Month Countdown
My one-woman show gets an extended run at The Marsh Theater in San Francisco starting two months from today. I am very honored to have a...
Irma Herrera
Jul 7, 20184 min read
Selling Democracy
Please come see my new show (in development) as part of The Marsh Theater’s Times Unseen Initiative. This Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at...
Irma Herrera
Jun 24, 20184 min read
Inconsolable
I steeled myself before playing the audio of the distraught immigrant children separated from their parents and shipped off to detention...
Irma Herrera
May 7, 20185 min read
Making Good Trouble
“You have a moral obligation, a mission and a mandate, to speak up, speak out, and get in good trouble. — Congressman John Lewis Last...
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