Speaker 1: Hi, my name is Maribel Torres, and I played La Poncia in Casa de Bernarda.

Speaker 2: My name is Ruby Jimenez, and I played Maria Josefa y Magdalena. Hi, my name is Ashley Mentes, and I played Adela.

Speaker 3: My name is Elena Gonzalez. I played the servant, and I was the assistant director.

Speaker 4: I am Clara Dundalk, and I was the state manager. I'm from Houston, California. I am a student at Stan State.

Speaker 3: My family is from the Bay Area. I was born in Patterson. I graduated Stan State just recently in the spring of 2022.

Speaker 2: I am from Turlock, California, and I am a student here at Stanislaus State. I am from Delhi, California, and I am a student here at Stan State.

Speaker 1: I was born and raised in Modesto, California. I'm a 2018 graduate from Stan State, CSU Stanislaus.

Speaker 4: Very stressful. It was my first stage management show, and so it was just a bit crazy. Lots of cues, and having never done anything like that before, and getting nominated to go, it was just like, whoa, I actually did something. That's weird.

Speaker 5: Yeah, Clara Dundalk single-handedly saved the show. We wouldn't have gotten nominated if it wasn't for her.

Speaker 3: Doing this show in three weeks felt like we only did it in two, but also we were all together for like six months. It was wild and hectic and crazy, but we were very lucky to have an entire cast and crew that we could all trust and rely on and support, and we had an amazing director leading us to get the outcome that we did, and obviously it was really good, because look it, we got nominated to go. First one from Stan State in what, 10 years? We were the first production to be nominated in the last 10 years to go to KCACTF, and it was a cast and crew mostly that was a full

Speaker 6: It was, I mean, absolutely. It's such a blessing, and I'm sure we all feel honored, but at the same time, and I hope this doesn't sound boastful, but I think it was very well-deserved, because I think

Speaker 1: we all worked very, very hard for it. Very, very hard for it, and I think that's what it's all about. I mean, it's such a blessing, and I'm sure we all feel honored, but at the same time, and I think it was very well-deserved, because I think we all worked very, very hard for it. Very, very hard, and everyone backstage, stage manager, director, every single dramaturg, actors, absolutely every single person, especially because a lot of us, we can't, I mean, I don't even know if all of us, if not every single one of us, we can't really afford to just focus on the play, and a lot of people are students, people are working jobs, you know, being students and working jobs, to be able to come in and work with such professionalism from everyone around, I think, I think it was well-deserved, you know, around for every single person who worked really, really hard to get it done.

Speaker 3: When you said that, I don't think that it sounds boastful, because we really put so much work into the show, and we all had so much faith in this show and in our team, you know, when we first got that, oh, we got a 10 out of 10, which to us was like, wow, this is, I've heard it, this is crazy. It was, it was a shock, and it was, it was such an honor, but being a few months out of it, looking back on the production, it feels very earned, because looking at our show, we really put something on that. Me, as a student, someone who had just graduated quite recently, and had been a student here for six years, I hadn't seen something like this come out of our department in a very long time. It felt earned, it felt deserved, and, and it's, it's a blessing and an honor, but we, I think we've

Speaker 7: earned it. It's insane, because this morning, I was able to watch a couple of clips from the show taken by Edgar, our amazing lighting designer. I remember watching, and I was just in shock, because I never would have imagined what the show looked like. It was so beautiful. Everyone was working together. It's like, we created this, like something, it was just such an honor. It was so beautiful, and

Speaker 6: I, I think we deserve it.

Speaker 2: This is my first semester, and as a freshman, it was like overwhelming, but also like very exciting to know that we got nominated, and I think this is such a great opportunity, and for both of us, and

Speaker 7: well, three of us, and I think we all well deserved it. It really is an honor, and it is amazing that like we could potentially be taking the entire like cast and crew with us, like it's a victory that I think that we should all be sharing, and then I'm very excited to work with Ruby, and to get back into that mindset, the preparing the monologue, but yeah, I think it's a lot of like practicing and drilling. It's like preparing those monologues, finding like all these audition pieces, which I think will be beneficial in the long run. Are you more nervous or excited? I think a

Speaker 6: little bit of both. Yeah. Because we broke that shit. There we go. So this department really needs some help

Speaker 3: getting money for us to go to this festival. It's a huge opportunity for our school. We are a really small department in the Central Valley. Theater in the Central Valley isn't something, art in the Central Valley is something that tends to be overlooked. This show is really important, not just for our department, but for the community that we all come from, and the community that we are representing. Latino, Latine, Latinx people in the arts don't always get the same backing that other communities make. This is the first all Latino cast that we've had in our department in five years. I think it was Roosters that was the last one. We need to support the arts. We need to support people of color in the arts. We needed to support our marginalized communities in the arts. Without any help from outside communities, without any help to get us there, we're not going to be able to go. Stan State, we're a small community in the Central Valley, and we are one of six schools that have been invited to bring their entire production out of thousands of colleges

Speaker 1: in our region. Utah, Arizona, Southern California, Guam, Hawaii. Nevada, Arizona, Guam, California,

Speaker 5: Southern California, Hawaii. Utah. Southern California, Nevada, Guam, Hawaii, Utah, and Arizona.

Speaker 1: It's bananas. Utah, Arizona, Southern California, Hawaii, Guam, Arizona. You should tell people, you should tell them how people should donate because Why should people donate?

Speaker 8: If you sit next to me. Yeah. Okay. We especially need assistance getting alumni and people who are not current students to the festival, which includes myself and Mari and Elena who are alumni and I am a guest artist. Yeah, we can't do it without your money.

Speaker 4: Because we don't have enough people in our theater department. That's the only reality of it. Our theater department is about 60% in tech right now, which is fabulous. I love tech. I am tech. I was like, if we had enough people, they wouldn't be here. For $1 a day, you can help a college student get to a fun festival. An educational festival.

Speaker 1: Sorry. Yes. $1 a day, but we don't have enough days. So yeah. So like $30 a day. Do it. Donate to us. Give us the money.