Spring Reading List: All Things Collaboration
Whatever your relationship to reading, there are some foundational texts with concepts, tools, and frameworks that might serve you in almost every area of your life. And friends, each one of these books falls aggressively into this category.
Luna's 6-part Deep Collaboration Roadmap
This blog is a collaboration. It's a collaboration that is mostly easy and feels like your favorite pajamas because it’s been worn in, and you know, seemingly every inch of it out of the familiarity that is only bred over years and years.
But even our favorite pajamas need delicate soap to maintain their integrity. Care is one of the most underrated elements of a good, healthy, sustainable, deep collaboration.
My First NNPN Showcase NYC
I recently had the opportunity to experience an unforgettable adventure at the National New Play Network (NNPN) Showcase + celebrating the ✨25th anniversary✨
Remembering Diane
How are you doing coming out of Eclipse week? Over here, we feel re-birthed and, frankly, exhausted. However, part of starting a new chapter is taking stock of what got you to where you are now. For us, this kind of reflection usually brings us to some memory, some moment, some lesson we inherited collectively from Diane.
We think about Diane Rodriguez almost every day here in the Lunaverse. But especially this week, on the four-year anniversary of her passing, while here in Washington D.C. advocating for the health and thriveability of Non-Profit Theatres with a new bill, The Stage Act.
Transformation Aint For The Faint Of Heart #HowWeValue
I’m embarrassed to write about it, but I feel strongly that I am supposed to invite anyone who has had that kind of talk with themselves or who still needs to whip out that mirror, sit down, and tell themselves: We have so much to celebrate because…
Discovering My Creative Path: A Journey of Self-Exploration
I'm Sofia (she/they), and I'm thrilled to share my journey with you. As a proud East LA native, I've always been drawn to the creative world, where imagination knows no bounds and storytelling reigns supreme.
Did we pass or fail our 2023 commitments?
So there we were, looking at our newly launched Studio Luna website, our freshy fresh values, and our capacity, and we felt like we had some hot fire commitments that we could DEFINITELY bite off and swallow all in a year's time, right? I mean, one of them is pretty direct: Staying Alive. Automatic check—- right?
Harnessing our Creative Genius
Creative genius is not a trait but a process, an approach to life where we see opportunities instead of problems. It’s the ability to connect disparate ideas, see relationships where others see non, and bring what was previously unimaginable into existence.
When Is A Second Chance Right For You?
For a company that was known for over 20 years solely as Teatro Luna, and has been working on a re-branding over the last couple years as Studio Luna- we are no strangers to SECOND CHANCES….. And sometimes third chances and maybe fourth chances and well, who’s keeping count anyway?!?
In Here There Is A Desert
The landscape of our inner narratives is a complex territory, brimming with stories waiting to be told, and emotions begging to be expressed. MOUTHFUL, the third episode of our fifth season of TALKING WHILE FCKD LIVE: THE STORYTELLING SESSIONS, delves into these uncharted territories. When I consider the theme "Mouthful," I am drawn to the unspoken words that lie heavily on the tip of my tongue, the inner baggage that is begging to be released for good.
Growing Older and Catching New Plays in New Ways at NNPN
I roll into Sacramento with my partner Lakin and Sirius our pug on April 27th. Alex has been in a 12 hour board meeting! Just kidding, it was actually only 4 hours- but still, so long! We grab a delicious bite at the hotel restaurant with Milagro Theatre’s Executive Director, Jose Gonzalez (also, coincidentally my father) and after a very fun dinner, we head to bed excitedly awaiting day 1 of the National New Play Network convening: New Plays New Ways.
Breaking My Bones
Ever been so desperate for change and growth that you consider breaking yourself apart for it? Have you ever looked up to the sky and felt limited by it rather than expanded? These are some of the questions we are interrogating with the theme for our second Talking While FCKD Live: Storytelling Sessions Thursday, May 25th at 7pm at THE STUDIO in Boyle.
There aren’t enough bleeps to make this podcast safe for all ears…
Drip Drip Drip.... we are letting you in on a little secret... after legitimately 12 different attempts to produce a podcast starting around 2016, we finally got our lives together...
We are ready to leave behind all of those never heard episodes and launch a 🧨 smoke show of a podcast that is absolutely, positively, unapologetically OBSESSED with storytelling and chatting it up with Latinx and WOC CREATIVE GENIUSES that will take us to places we didn’t know we needed oh so badly to go.
Exquisite Grace: #HowWeValue
This week I was invited to give a talk with a group of first years at the David Geffen School of Drama on Anti-Oppressive Practices At Culturally Specific Organizations. And maybe it was the moment I was in this week or the approaching full moon that was down the pike as I prepared for this. But I landed on discussing the often unspoken thing: that culturally specific institutions perpetuate the same white supremacy culture characteristics as predominantly white institutions. It is almost heartbreaking because it comes from a place of unseen pain compounded by harm, steeped by confusion. However, I also wanted to share how we combat that daily.
You Thought We Were Cancelled Forever…
Darlings. We legit almost vanquished off the face of this earth... but we've survived and clawed our way back to tell another story. That means Season 5 of TWF is back with an all-new title: Talking While Fckd, and we launch March 23rd, 2023 at Studio Luna in Boyle Heights with the first episode, CRESCENDO. To purchase tickets go to bit.ly/twfcrescendo
Step One: The Vision
Walking into Studio Luna’s first event was thrilling.
Following the pandemic shut down, and going from no contact to some contact to semi-back to normal is hard on everyone. But in all honesty, I missed my friends. I wasn’t going to miss an opportunity to 1.) be around them, and 2.) share and set goals with inspiring individuals.
As you walked in you saw the tables lined up in the middle of the studio with magazines baskets on each end. In front of each chair was a cork board with all the fixings for it to be mounted up onto a wall.
Maya Learns How To Festival in Chile
Ensemble member, Maya reflects on spending a week in Santiago, Chile for the Teatro A Mil Festival.
Planner Picks from a Recovering Perfectionist
As someone who recently had a sweet little menty b (mental breakdown) over prioritizing and planning for the year, let me let you in on a secret no one wants you to know…