Alisha Espinosa is an Afro-Boricua theater maker. She is a professional playwright, AEA actor, the Producing Artistic Director for the Latinx Playwrights Circle, and Marketing Director for WP Theater. She was a recipient of a Creatives Rebuild New York Artist Employment Grant and NALAC Fund for the Arts Artist Grant. A selection of her work can be found on the New Play Exchange Network, including The Language of the Unheard, which was a Eugene O’Neill Finalist. Select Residencies: Hedgebrook Residency 2023, Saltonstall 2023; Audrey Residency 2022 – ’23 (New Georges); Early Career Writers Group 2021 – ’22 (Clubbed Thumb); First Stage Residency 2019 (Drama League). Select Acting Credits: Twelfth Night (St. Louis Shake), blooms (EST), A Skeptic & A Bruja (Urbanite), Seize the King (Classical Theatre of Harlem), Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (WP Theatre), Hamlet (Stage One), Much Ado About Nothing (KY Shakespeare).