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Tanya Saracho

Mexican Playwright

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When you work in a writers room for a showrunner, you serve that story, and you serve that showrunner. I don't think it should be called writing; I think it should be called rendering content. Because you are there to render the content that is agreed upon in the room, and you're serving the voice of the main storyteller, which is the showrunner. Tanya Saracho

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When I got to 'Looking,' I didn't know that you could write stuff and they would put it on TV. That was that experience. My boss was Andrew Haigh and he came from film; he had never done TV. It was his first TV show, and he was running it. And I think he was like, 'Write it, and we'll put it on.' It was lovely. Tanya Saracho

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Sometimes, when I was the only person of color in a room, you had to defend all the people of color everywhere. Tanya Saracho

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The thing is about 'Vida,' we're telling a very simple family narrative. There's nothing fancy about it. Tanya Saracho

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There is no 'generic' Latina. Tanya Saracho

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When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from. Tanya Saracho

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Write about your experiences! When I moved to L.A., I didn't have any friends, and the office janitor was the person who I saw the most. He would always come in at around 10:00 P.M., and I would still be at my desk, so I wrote a play about a first-year TV writer and the friendship that she developed with the janitor. Our stories matter. Tanya Saracho

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Spanglish is very natural. It's however it comes out. But there are a few patterns that all of us, especially Mexican-American writers, just noticed in how we utilized Spanglish. It comes out of necessity when you can't find the next word. You go to whatever language will serve you best. Tanya Saracho

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