About Tina D'Elia
Tina D’Elia is a mixed-race Mexican, lesbian/queer-identified feminist artist,
• a performance coach
• an acting instructor
• a SAG-AFTRA actor
• voice over talent
• an award-winning solo performer
• a casting director
• executive producer, and
• a co-screenwriter.
She stars in the award-winning SAG webseries on YouTube: Assigned Female at Birth (2020-2021). D’Elia co-wrote an episode in The Sins and Secrets of Tabar Lake a radio play created by AJ Baker and was the voice over opening and closing credits (2021).
D’Elia was nominated by Broadway World San Francisco 2023, for Best Solo Performer and Solo Show The Rita Hayworth of this Generation. She received an Executive Producer Award (2019) Best Actress Award (2017) Diversity Casting Award (2017), and the Trailblazer Award (2015) from the Equality International Film Festival. She was cast as the solo performer in Eye Zen Presents’ Out of Site: Haight-Ashbury. Her solo shows include: The Break-up! A Latina Torch Song, Overlooked Latinas, The Rita Hayworth of this Generation, which garnered Best of Fringe and Best of Sold-Out Shows with the San Francisco Fringe Festival (2015), Groucho: A Day in the D’Elia Soup, and Forgotten Angel. D’Elia is the co-writer of the short film Lucha that received The Audience Award at Frameline33 LGBT Film Festival (2009) and nominated for the prestigious Iris Prize Award (2009).
D'Elia’s film and television credits include: The Pursuit of Happyness, Knife Fight, Earth Mama, Guitar Man, Junkie, Madhavi, The Eclipse: 5:40, Transfinite, The Mercy Man, and Trauma. And webseries credits: Sense8, Dyke Central, Chosen Fam, Lesbian Straights, and Assigned Female at Birth. She was nominated for Best Female Comedian the 48 Film Festival (2010). D’Elia is honored to be listed in Curve magazine’s Power List (2017) and listed in Go Magazine’s “100 Women We Love” (2019).