Patricia Crespin

Patricia Crespín is a writer, actor, director, and producer, and has never been accused of tedious storylines. She is founder of Wize Latina Productions, her company dedicated to creating powerful roles in theatre and film for the underrepresented Latina. She is a fellowship recipient from the University of New Mexico's Center for Regional Studies. Her plays include We are Hispanic, American Women...Okay? (2006), Confessions of a Hispanic American Woman (2007), The Medea Complex (2008), The Three Señorita Pigletitas y el Diablo the Wolf (2008), Living Purgatory (2009), El Corrido de Jórge-George's Song (2010), The Sad Room (2012), and Fallout, (2017). Patricia has had the incredible opportunity to work with many fierce theatre companies and directors around the country. To name a few, the Breath of Fire Theatre Ensemble from Santa Ana, CA, produced The Medéa Complex in 2009, the National Hispanic Cultural Center and Teatro Paraguas both produced The Medéa Complex in 2012. Patricia started her film career after her play, We are Hispanic-American Women...Okay? was optioned by Yellow Hat Productions in the Summer of 2009. Patricia co-wrote and co-produced the movie which became a Universal Studios film in 2012 titled, Before We Say Goodbye. She has written two short films, Michelle, (2013) which was a finalist in the Albuquerque 48-hour horror film festival, and Land of Heirs, (2016) which premiered at NMHU's film studies department and has evolved into a horror series about Urban Legends in Latin culture. Patricia has a B.A. from New Mexico Highlands University and an M.F.A from the University of New Mexico. She lives in Las Vegas, New Mexico, where she continues to explore the, often complicated, construction of the Latin culture in New Mexico, through theatre, storytelling, and film, using risqué narratives seeped in the history of the land and its unique people.