Hortencia Colorado
Chichimec, Otomi, Nhanhu SAG, AFTRA, AEA Hortencia is a storyteller, writer, performer, cultural activist, traditional dancer. Among Hortencia’s TV credits include: The Mystic Warrior, the mini-series; The Legend of Walks Far Woman (MOW); A Man Called Hawk, Fatal Vision, a mini-series; and Nurse. Film credits: Irreconcilable Differences, Easy Rider, and Distance. She was an understudy for Rita Moreno in The Ritz presented on Broadway. Her Off Off Broadway work includes various roles at: Theatre for the New City, New York Theatre Workshop, Yale Rep, Hudson Theatre Guild, NY Theatre Ensemble, LaMaMa, INTAR, Ensemble Theatre/West, and Labor Theatre Hortencia is one of the founding members together with her sister Elvira and son Shan Finnerty of Coatlicue Theatre Company, Inc. which is based in New York City. Coatlicue has toured nationally and internationally performing and conducting workshops. Coatlicue Theatre Company is a recipient of numerous grants: The Ford Foundation, Rockefeller, Readers Digest-Lila Wallace, NYFA, NYSCA; and The Ingrid Washinawatok Community Activism Award and Honor the Spirit Award for Excellence in theatre. Their work has been published in several theatre journals and anthologies. They are members of the Network of Ensemble Theaters, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at NYU and American Indian Community House. Coatlicue was instrumental in initiating and maintaining the Day of the Dead community altar celebrations in New York City at AICH, Smithsonian NMAI, Museo del Barrio and with universities and community organizations.