MARISSA CHIBÁS

DIRECTOR OF DUENDE CALARTS

Marissa Chibás is a Los Angeles-based writer, filmmaker, actor, educator, and recipient of the TCG Fox Fellowship for Distinguished Achievement. She is on the Theater School faculty at California Institute of the Arts where she is Director of Duende CalArts, an initiative at CalArts Center for New Performance that produces innovative Latinx and Latin American artists. For Duende, she conceived and wrote Shelter, which premiered in April 2016 at Lincoln Park, was presented at the Kennedy Center, and is published by NoPassport Press.

Her work as an actor has been seen on Broadway and on major stages throughout the world and her solo show, Daughter of a Cuban Revolutionary, has toured the U.S., Europe, and Mexico and was published by Routledge Press. Marissa‘s short film, Finding Shelter, won best documentary short at the San Diego Latino Film Festival in 2019 and she received a filmmaker of the month award (September 2019) from NewFilmmakers LA. Her book, Mythic Imagination and the Actor, was released August 3, 2021, by Routledge Press.