Amalia Oliva rojas

Amalia Oliva Rojas is an award-winning Mexican poet, performer, and theatre artivist raised in New York. Her work centers and preserves the stories, myths, and legends of her family, women of color, and immigrant communities in New York. Her plays include Tonantzin On the 7 Train (PEN America), A Step-by-Step Guide on How to Succeed in the Myth-Making Business (Lehman College, Jamaica Arts and Learning Center), How to Melt ICE (or How the Coyote Fell in Love with the Lizard Who Was Really a Butterfly) (New York Women’s Fund Grant, New Perspectives Theatre Company, Boundless Theater Company; Latin American Theater Award for Outstanding Playwriting), and In The Bronx Brown Girls Can See Stars Too, winner of the 2025 KCACTF Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, Darrell Ayers National Playwriting Award, 2025 Leah Ryan Prize, and a 2026 Lanford Wilson New Play Top 20 selection. Recent fellowships include Ghostlight Theater, The Opportunity Agenda’s Culture and Narrative Fellowship, The Lily’s Lorraine Hansberry Fellowship, and the CUNY Mexican Studies Institute Lydia Mendoza Fellowship. She holds an MFA from Columbia University.