About Tina D'Elia

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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’s100 Women We Love” (2019)

Tina D’Elia has that Magic talent; to have fun and to move the audience at the same time. Extraordinary!
— David Ford: Director, Playwright, Goldie Winner

Awards

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San Francisco Fringe Festival: Best of Fringe & Sold Out Shows

Tina D'Elia's original solo performance, The Rita Hayworth of This Generation awarded Best of Fringe & Best of Sold Out Shows from the San Francisco Fringe Festival 2015.

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CURVE Power List

Tina D'Elia nominated for the CURVE Power list 2017. Learn more at CURVE Magazine.

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Executive Producer & Trailblazer Award

Tina D'Elia receives Executive Producer Award 2017 & Trailblazer Award 2015 from the Equality International Film Festival. 

Audience Award Frameline Film Festival

Audience Award LGBT Frameline Film Festival 2009 and nominated for The Iris Prize, UK 2009, Lucha, Short Narrative Film.