https://www.alisondelacruz.com/home daily 1.0 2023-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/1608657298304-Q8IRT3YPDRRNWEKHOS6C/Alison+De+La+Cruz_photo.jpg https://www.alisondelacruz.com/producer daily 0.75 2022-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/1608657667665-4RQHGX191GH02EROGPA8/Allegiance+_281.jpg Producer - Make it stand out Executive Producer, Los Angeles Premiere of ALLEGIANCE, for JACCC & East West Players https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/1608659199871-K91XY1PLE5LI0C8KNZNN/ComedyComedy_18.jpg Producer - Make it stand out Co-Executive Producer of the Comedy Comedy Festival: A Comedy Festival with DisOriented Comedy and for JACCC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/ded4f721-2843-4828-86c2-b0521b6e33b2/Comedy+Fest+Audience+Shot+DisOriented.jpeg Producer - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/029df48e-d27f-4877-89f5-8adebe7656fe/LT+Book+Fair.jpeg Producer - Make it stand out While at JACCC, DeLa was able to help produce the Little Tokyo Book Festival. https://www.alisondelacruz.com/artist-content-creator daily 0.75 2022-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/fb9d23c6-2df4-4c1e-8039-b218e53dfef3/Sungka+Fresh+Tracks+Image.jpg Artist & Content Creator - Make it stand out Press photo for Fresh Track 2000 Series produced by JACCC at the David Henry Hwang Theatre. Alison’s debut solo work: SUNGKA premiered to a sold out house. Pictured above: front row: Alison De La Cruz, 2nd Row: Pete, Erin O’ Brien, 3rd Row: Edren Sumagaysay, Kennedy Kabasares, track kato kiriyama, unidentified artist, Michael Sakamoto, Kristina Wong and an unidentified artist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/9d276c1e-8ccd-4295-995c-a4080dddb53d/Tagongo+for+Linda.jpeg Artist & Content Creator Alison De La Cruz and Roque Bucton perform an original "Ta Gongo for Linda" at the Life Celebration for Linda Mabalot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/3d24d886-ec8a-417b-9f4b-76dacac53042/Stop+Kiss+Talkback+w+Sandra+Oh+Diana+Sun.jpeg Artist & Content Creator (L to R) Sandra Oh, Diana Son, Seema Sueko, with Alison as she facilitates a talkback after at Pasadena Playhouse's production of STOP KISS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/b8634c0e-fb08-4e00-8056-25768969064d/DeLa+Artivistas.jpg Artist & Content Creator cover art for the March 1, 2018 ARTIVISTA program featuring: Alison De La Cruz, Martha Gonzalez, Maya Jupiter, Medusa, Georgia Ann-Muldrow, Alice Bagg, Faith Santilla https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/06202af0-4c1e-42fd-862a-35c4c71da600/DeLa+at+Comedy+Comedy+Lyric+Hyperion.jpg Artist & Content Creator Alison sharing some funny stories on stage at the Lyric Hyperion as part of the Comedy Comedy Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/e7d70927-74c1-4a3b-80a5-79ea0566aa23/Smoke+and+Mirrors+1.jpeg Artist & Content Creator An audience capture of Alison's Flash Theater LA piece: SMOKE & MIRRORS. Smoke & Mirrors written by Alison M. De La Cruz directed by Fran de Leon produced by Playwright's Arena and Flash Theatre LA Produced live at The Park's Finest BBQ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/bfc0b645-0856-4927-a3b9-c32508fed2e2/I+am+Todays+Filipino+Exhibition+Image.jpeg Artist & Content Creator Alison was honored to be included in 100 Filipino Americans for an exhibit in 2006. The link leads to full presentation of video interviews and photographs as they were presented at the Farmani Gallery in Beverly Hills, California on October 28, 2006. The video looped on large screen monitors surrounded by the 100 photographs. Artists & Producers: Celina Taganas-Duffy & Ray Carbullido Click on the image to go to the archive website. Alison begins at timecode 16:13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/6f9b12a2-20d9-482c-9a5e-5152ca59e83d/WBS+Sound+Check+at+SolFest.jpeg Artist & Content Creator One of the only known images of the Women of the Balagatasan Collective during their sound check for the 5th Annual Sol Festival in 2002. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/672b993e-7a3b-4bb0-8b8e-76163c74d9e4/DeLa+at+CAATA.jpeg Artist & Content Creator De La Cruz performing an original opening piece for the 2009 Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists Conference https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/6fc55ffc-2473-4182-85de-f4dd021b2a70/early+poet+DeLa+w+Paolo+PWC.jpeg Artist & Content Creator Deep roots in Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles, here is Alison on stage with Paolo Espiritu at the Pilipino Workers Center in their now historic garage and make-shift performance space. https://www.alisondelacruz.com/facilitator daily 0.75 2022-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/c7a8f525-3a70-4623-8d38-a7875bdd72c8/BSUSA+Staff+Photo.jpeg Facilitator - Make it stand out De La Cruz has been facilitating groups of all sizes since the early 1990s. This June 1996 photo was the first Brotherhood Sisterhood Camp that Alison served as Co-Director, she would later go on to Co-Direct the Youth Leadership Program later that year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/fff9093c-3bed-47c0-94f2-baa6ab3fb5ef/DeLa+Facilitating+.jpeg Facilitator - Make it stand out Here Alison is facilitating the closing plenary for Network of Ensemble Theatre Micro-Fest in Minneapolis, MN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/837f17a1-b189-4712-8467-c34607c9c7cf/Facilitating+TCG+Panel.jpeg Facilitator - Make it stand out Thanks to Joe Luis Cedillo for capturing this moment of Alison facilitating with Zak Berman at the Theatre Communications Group Conference 2014 for our workshop entitled: Radical Outreach: New Directions for Activating Underserved Audiences. https://www.alisondelacruz.com/bio daily 0.75 2024-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/94789486-f0a0-484f-bea4-72b37a727b90/240622_%C2%A9Safi-Alia-Shabaik_Freewaves-FEMMMES_066_WEB.jpg Bio - Alison De La Cruz bio Alison De La Cruz (she/he/they/siya/DeLa) is a senior artivist leader, facilitator, cultural organizer, multi-disciplinary theatre artist, educator, contemporary ritualist and elder. DeLa is a collaborative leader with over twenty years of arts and cultural production, relationship and programmatic development, budgeting, staff and project management experiences and skills. They have raised over $4.5 million throughout their career to capacitate artists, communities and the organizations that serve them. De La Cruz has collaborated with local artists and produced community events of all sizes, developing Los Angeles’ world class cultural ecosystem for over 25 years. De La Cruz is the new Executive & Artistic Director of Great Leap, Inc. and is also spending time as a Community Self-Determination & Cultural Transformation facilitator working with the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena Waldorf School, and the cultural legacy organization Self Help Graphics & Arts. DeLa also serves as a Co-Project Lead for the Vallejo Arts Fund. De La Cruz has over thirty years of experience facilitating circles and spaces for youth, strangers, neighbors, friends, colleagues, and collaborators to explore diverse communities and break down bias and systemic inequity. De La Cruz has devised trainings and national convenings for the Network of Ensemble Theaters, California State University Polytechnic, Pomona, Marlborough School, Thacher School, and Theatre Communications Group among others. De La Cruz has also been a featured speaker at national convenings for Art Change US: Arts Equity Summit, Grantmakers in the Arts, and the Weingart Foundation. De La Cruz’s individual artistic work has been presented at venues across the country including the Smithsonian Institution, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Asian Arts Initiative, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Highways Performance Space, East West Players and the former Northwest Asian American Theatre. De La Cruz was the poet narrator for the documentary: Grassroots Rising Asian Immigrant Workers in Los Angeles (Visual Communications, 2005). Their work is included in Going Home to a Landscape: Writings by Filipinas (Calyx Press, 2003) and In Our Blood: Filipina/o American Poetry and Spoken Word in Los Angeles (LA Enkanto Collective, 2001). De La Cruz served as Executive Producer of the LA premiere of the Broadway musical ALLEGIANCE (2018, EWP & JACCC) at the historic Aratani Theatre followed by the world premiere of TALES OF CLAMOR (2019, JACCC & NCRR) in the Aratani Theatre Black Box. De La Cruz was previously the Vice President of Programs at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center where they oversaw programming in Performing Arts, Culinary Arts, Visual & Cultural Arts, Community Engagement, and Neighborhood Placekeeping work with Sustainable Little Tokyo. As a director and dramaturge, De La Cruz has worked with queer artists such as D’Lo; Nathan Ramos, Claudia Rodriguez; Butchlalis de Panochitlan; Cynthia Ling Lee of Post Natyam Collective; Nico Dacumos, and Ser among others. De La Cruz’s directing credits include the world premiere of Nathan Ramos’ AS WE BABBLE ON (2018, East West Players), Claudia Rodriguez’s MIDNIGHT STEEL (2016, Grand Performances / DCA); Post Natyam Collective’s SUPER RUWAXI (2014, Fury Factory), East West Players’ EVOKE FESTIVAL (2013 & 2012), TeAda Productions’ TEADAWORKS (2010 & 2008). In 2024 DeLa served as Adjunct Lecturer for the University of Southern California’s School of Dramatic Arts where they directed the world premiere of the Marilyn Schotland’s SOMEWHERE SOMEONE IS TRAVELING FURIOUSLY TOWARDS YOU. De La Cruz has led at the intersections of dramaturgy, adaptation, youth development, generative processes, community organizing, dialogue, workforce investment and playwrighting on over 10 Youth Arts productions by Shakespeare Center Los Angeles, About Productions and East West Players. During the pandemic, De La Cruz started to nurture joy with other Women of Color and created Trek Table, a podcast & webshow centering the perspectives and insights of BIWOC Star Trek fans, unpacking social justice, community-building and our own expressions of BIWOC Trekkie-ness. https://www.alisondelacruz.com/podcast-guest daily 0.75 2022-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/0ff762e1-b684-4a18-bfd8-c351a431ff04/DeLa+on+Asian+America+Podcast.png Podcast Guest DeLa talking about the world premiere of AS WE BABBLE ON May 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/a40184da-e42f-4e5a-b40b-13ffcbb5d92f/KollabCast.png Podcast Guest DeLa on KollabCast talking about AS We BABBLE ON in May 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/3fb68f5b-2f0c-4f4f-b4f6-9608c82fd7d8/tfal_logo_vertical.png Podcast Guest DeLa on TFAL talking about Little Tokyo in April 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/8958451a-871e-4c55-894f-391e73fc44b3/DeLa+on+W%40W.png Podcast Guest DeLa on Women at Warp in April 2022 https://www.alisondelacruz.com/director daily 0.75 2022-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/1652303745674-RZDY7OOJE34AL7S7RQBM/Super+Ruwaxi+.jpeg Director https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/1652304495594-QGX3G55FM8HIQQVA2KSR/As-We-Babble-On-1.png Director https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/1652305000533-PVYDF3GHII1C0XW176DN/media_FAkaa3pVgAEFQqb.jpg Director https://www.alisondelacruz.com/portals-statement daily 0.75 2023-05-22 https://www.alisondelacruz.com/current-projects daily 0.75 2023-08-16 https://www.alisondelacruz.com/current-projects/vallejo-arts-fund monthly 0.5 2023-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/045240f7-35c2-476e-bf66-58458a24e34a/1.png Current Projects - Vallejo Arts Fund https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/316ea166-7981-475e-8b47-595812ca37ae/2.png Current Projects - Vallejo Arts Fund https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/d8741a0b-aca0-41e4-b963-c5d58c9280f3/3.png Current Projects - Vallejo Arts Fund https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc7d5fd9f26ca72db3ac465/96d3c3f5-fd82-4b3e-bc8d-4f3d2810bde3/4.png Current Projects - Vallejo Arts Fund