Amalia Oliva Rojas is an award winning and internationally produced Mexican poet, performer, and theatre artivist raised in Nueva York. Her work centers and archives the stories, myths, and legends told by her family, women of color and the New York immigrant community. 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 and Boundless Theater Company, Latin American Theater Award for Outstanding Playwriting), and In The Bronx Brown Girls Can See Stars Too (Egg & Spoon Incubate NYC, 2025 KCACTF Paula Vogel Playwriting Award and the Darrell Ayers National Playwriting Award, 2025 Leah Ryan Prize).

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Recent Fellowships: Culture and Narrative Fellow for The Opportunity Agenda, The Lily’s Lorraine Hansberry Fellow, CUNY Mexican Studies Institute Lydia Mendoza Fellow.

MFA, Columbia University.

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Amalia is represented by Chris Till, Paradigm Talent Agency.