Shows
The Break-Up! A Latina Queer Torch Song
Trina Maria, miserable in Heartbreak-ville after she loses the Movie Butch of her dreams, stumbles into a mystical queer misfits “break-up” support group.
November 6 - 23
Theatre Rhinoceros
San Francisco, California
“I loved every minute of it! I laughed...loved D’Elia’s different characters and how she brought them to life…loved the absolute boldness and vulnerability she simultaneously brings to her work.””
Overlooked Latinas
Queer Latinx buddies Angel and Carla pitch their TV pilot highlighting legendary Latinx movie stars during the McCarthy era. Enter femme fatale creating chaos with Angel’s wife and Angel’s life.
Performed
April 5 - May 10 5pm
The Berkeley Marsh
Berkeley, California
“Worthy of a classic screwball comedy.”
— Lily Janiak, SF Chronicle/SFGate
The Break-up! A Latina Queer Torch Song
Performed December 6-15, 2024
Brava! for Women in the Arts
San Francisco, California
The Rita Hayworth of this Generation
“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)
Performed April 6-23, 2023
Theatre Rhinoceros
San Francisco, California
Overlooked Latinas
Queer Latinx buddies Angel and Carla pitch their TV pilot highlighting legendary Latinx movie stars during the McCarthy era. Enter femme fatale creating chaos with Angel’s wife and Angel’s life.
Performed October 2022
The Marsh
San Francisco, California
“D'Elia shifts between multiple parts, pulling faces, cracking wise, doing funny walks and quirky voices. But unlike Lily Tomlin or Whoopi Goldberg, whose celebrated one-woman shows found them sequentially embodying each of several roles in a series of discrete monologues, D'Elia pops in and out of her dozen or so characters, often generating rapid-fire banter between them, as she builds an overarching narrative with the appealing shagginess and speed of improv sketch comedy.”
— Jim Gladstone, Bay Area Reporter
OUT of Site: Haight-Ashbury
EyeZen Presents a performance-driven queer history tour featuring Tina D’Elia.
Written by Michelle Carter and directed by Seth Eisen.
The Break-up! A Latina Queer Torch Song
A lonely-hearts lesbian vlog, memories of her ex-girlfriend’s cats, pigeons at her windowsill, and songs of heartache fill her days. First step to healing: find a queer support group.
Performed June, 2021
Brava! for Women in the Arts
San Francisco, California
Overlooked Latinas
Queer Latinx buddies Angel and Carla pitch their TV pilot highlighting legendary Latinx movie stars during the McCarthy era. Enter femme fatale creating chaos with Angel’s wife and Angel’s life.
Performed November, 2020
Theatre Rhinoceros
San Francisco, California
“Tina D’Elia, a powerful and touching solo performer, makes me want to see and know more about these hidden heroes.”
— Patricia L. Morin, Theatrius
The Rita Hayworth of This Generation
“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)
Performed at the San Francisco Fringe Festival
September, 2015
EXIT Theatre
San Francisco, California
“D’Elia is multi-talented – a versatile and very compelling performer. Her voice ranges from cool and husky
resonant speaking to lyrical when singing and everything else in between.”
— Jo Tomalin (Fringe Review)