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ALISON M. DE LA CRUZ
WRITER/ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
 
Alison M. De La Cruz is an artist, cultural activist, and ate (older sister).  Currently living in the South Bay and creating throughout the Los Angeles Basin, De La Cruz works with emerging and established artists to create, transform, mobilize, and heal communities through the arts. 
 
De La Cruz is the writer, narrator, and Associate Producer of Grassroots Rising, a documentary exploring the experiences of low wage Asian immigrant working families in Los Angeles. As part of the project, De La Cruz was a California Arts Council Artist in Residence with Visual Communications and taught writing workshops at the Pilipino Workers Center.
 
De La Cruz has also taught writing and theatre workshops throughout Los Angeles with organizations such as Asian Pacific Islanders for Reproductive Health – HOPE Project, Great Leap, Inc., HeART Project, and for Eskuela Kultura, a program of Fil Am ARTS.  De La Cruz was recently the playwright and facilitation director working with Shakespeare Festival/LA's Will Power to Youth Program.
 
In April 2005, De La Cruz performed a reading of her new one-woman show, Naturally Graceful, as part of the Mark Taper Forum’s, New Theatre for Now Festival at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, CA.   She toured her first solo show, SUNGKA, to venues throughout the country including: the David Henry Hwang Theatre in Los Angeles, Bindlestiff Studio in San Francisco, the Northwest Asian American Theatre in Seattle, WA, and the Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia, PA.  She has also toured to over 30 college and university campuses.
 
De La Cruz's work is featured on the L.A. Enkanto cd In Our Blood: Filipina/o American Spoken Word and Poetry in Los Angeles and in Going Home to a Landscape: Writing by Filipinas (Calyx Books).