CURRENT RESIDENCE: Oak Park, Illinois
YEAR JOINED ENSEMBLE: 2001
POSITION: Actor & Playwright
AMERICAN BLUES THEATER CREDITS
(Upcoming) Always…Patsy Cline
The People’s Temple
The Hairy Ape
Quake
Catch 22
Working
Ripped Festivals (as both actor and playwright)
The Commons
@Home
ABOUT EDITHA
Editha Rosario-Moore has been a proud Ensemble Member of American Blues Theater since 2001 and currently serves on the Board of Directors. She grew up on the West Side of Chicago in the Austin neighborhood. After studying theater at Northwestern University, she worked as an actor and teacher in Chicago, where she was also an original ensemble member of Teatro Luna, Chicago’s first all-Latina theater. She then moved to NYC for her graduate studies at New York University, where she received a Master of Arts in Playwriting and Feminist Studies. Editha also served as the executive director of NYC’s INTAR Theater, one of the oldest Latine theatre companies in the United States.
Working as a theater artist and teacher in both Chicago and NYC inspired Editha to work on issues of social justice. She moved to New Orleans to attend Tulane University Law School. Editha later returned home to work as both a public defender and a theater artist. Currently, she is a proud attorney supervisor at the Cook County Public Defender, which has inspired her to make theater that represents the working-class heart and soul of Chicago. In 2019, she won the Illinois Public Defender Association’s Bruce Robert Jacob Award, for efforts that embody the core values of the Public Defender Movement in the United States and the State of Illinois. Editha has also published legal scholarship that explores the relationship between criminal law education and community empowerment. She lives in Oak Park with her husband and daughter.
FUN FACT
Editha started college as a dancer, before realizing she was much more of a theater artist. But she still loves dance, and even named her dog Pina, after the great Pina Bausch.