Amparo Garcia-Crow

Amparo Garcia-Crow is an actor, singer, director-producer who writes plays, screenplays, non-fiction, poems and songs. Her work, seen in movies, television and colleges has premiered in national playhouses like South Coast Repertory Theatre, Off-Broadway, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Mabou Mines and Latino Chicago. Three of her original films premiered on PBS, SXSW, Cine las Americas and the Los Angeles Latino International film festival. Her musical Unknown Soldier: The New American Musical of Mexican Descent” now titled Appeal was featured in the PBS documentary “Visiones (Visions): Latino Art and Culture”; as a former professor at the University of Texas, Amparo received the NEA/TCG Director and James Michener Fellowships, won the Larry King Playwriting Award and the Mae West Festival’s Best Female Protagonist Award. A collection, Between Misery and the Sun: The South Texas Plays and her memoir Prophecy of My Undoing along with an anthology of her original music Releasing (1984-1994)are available on Amazon, Spotify and Apple Music. Amparo currently hosts the monthly Moth-like “Living Room Story-time for Grown-ups” in Austin, Texas which she founded in 2007.