Barclay Goldsmith
(Producing Director), is founder of Borderlands Theater, now celebrating its
20th Anniversary. The company is Latino-based, reflecting the diverse voice of
the U.S./ Mexico Border Region. He has lived and worked in Argentina and Mexico
and recently directed, in Mexico City at the UNESCO International Theater
Festival, La Mujer Que Cayó del Cielo by Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda, a work
produced twice at Borderlands. Other recent directing credits include the
development and premiere of Electricidad by Luis Alfaro with funding from the
Kennedy Center for New American Plays. Borderlands is the recent recipient of a
New Generations International Fellowship Grant. Goldsmith is also a founding
member of the National New Play Network.

EVA TESSLER
(Artistic Associate), (MFA Theater Arts/MA Anthropology, University of Arizona)
is a native of Mexico City. During the 1980's she danced, choreographed and
taught in Brazil at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Tessler
moved to Tucson in 1989 and she has acted, danced, choreographed and directed
extensively. She is currently Artistic Associate with Borderlands Theater and an
ensemble member of the Latina Dance Project, a national organization that
supports the Latina voice through dance and theater. Highlights of her work
include: critically acclaimed review of Living Out (Lisa Loomer, Borderlands
Theater), movement direction for the World Premiere of Old Matador (Milcha
Sanchez Scott, Arizona Theatre Company), co-authorship of the play 13 Days/ 13
Dias: How the New Zapatistas Shook the World (San Francisco Mime Troupe) and
movement for the film Roosters directed by Bob Young. Tessler is an accomplished
educator who currently teaches dance at Tucson High Magnet School. Tessler has
facilitated several workshops on theater and dance for youth groups throughout
the country, most notably Tucson High Magnet School Grief Group (Tucson) and El
Corazon, a group of migrant workers (New York).

Has been Literary
Manager at Borderlands Theater since 2003. She was first
introduced to
Borderlands Theater in 1989 when she was commissioned to write the new play, Los
Espantos in the Courtyard Cantando Todavia, for the Border Playwrights Project.
Toni has been a grant writer at Borderlands for nine years, and in 1998 her
play, Two Days of Grace at Middleham, was produced at Borderlands Theater.

Toni
Press-Coffman has written 20 plays which have been produced throughout the
United States and in Europe. Her play Touch was produced Off-Broadway last
season. She was the recipient of an NEA/TCG Playwright Residency with the
Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis through which she developed her play Bodies and
Hearts in the Face of the Monster. Subsequently titled That Slut!, the play had
a successful Tucson production at the Temple of Music and Art in 2003. Her play
Stand was developed at the O'Neill Theatre Conference and subsequently produced
at Jeff Daniels' Purple RoseTheatre. Her play about Richard III, Two Days of
Grace at Middleham, premiered at Borderlands Theatre in 1998 and was
subsequently produced at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She has received
individual artist grants from both the Arizona and California Commissions on the
Arts, and has taught playwriting at Arizona State University and Ohio State
University. Press-Coffman is the Chair of the National New Play Network's
Literary Committee and a member of the Dramatists Guild.

Has served on the
Borderlands Theater Board from 1993 to 1995 and again since 2004. He is the
Board President and serves on the Finance Committee and executive
committees.

Diego A.
Navarrette, Jr. graduated from the University of Arizona with a BA in Liberal
Arts in 1961 with an English Major and a History Minor, and has been involved in
the process of education ever since. His other passion has been in the broad
field of the performing, plastic, and visual arts. He taught high school English
for eight years, than spent twenty-one years teaching Linguistics at Pima
Community College. Following that Mr. Navarrette became Student Activities
Director in which capacity he planned and implemented cultural, athletic, and
social activities for Pima Community College students including many Viet Nam
veterans returning to school under the auspices of the new G.I. Bill. He worked
with the creative writing faculty to sponsor literary magazines. He collaborated
with the Bi-Lingual Program staff to produce a Bi-Lingual Literary magazine. Mr.
Navarette was a founding member of the Tucson Arts Council and a Chicano/a Arts
organization named ARITZLAN (a composite of AZTLAN and ARIZONA), and the Arizona
Humanities Council. He served as an Expansion Arts panelist for the National
Endowment for the Arts for four years, two years as the Chair. He was one of
Borderlands' original Board members. He has served as Board President since he
returned to the Board two years ago.