1/19/2024 0 Comments Im done with this shit![]() ![]() And I don’t know what to do with myself on Sundays. The strike has been crazy because I’ve had weekends. You take that away from a workaholic, like this work stoppage, and you have a crisis of faith and an existential crisis, which is what I had in June. That’s such a luxury, to be able to only worry about the work. When I’m working like that, I don’t have much of a social life. When I’m working, I don’t stop to have human interactions unless they’re meetings about the projects. There’s a lot of very early days and working until I can’t. I’ve been in delivery mode for the past three and a half years. I think most people who do what I do will say: Whatever looming deadline is loudest is the one that you’re going to be working toward. I usually have Pilates four times a week. I’m type 2 diabetic, so I have to take meds, and I take a shit ton of supplements. I turn on my Reuters app to hear the news, then I make coffee. I receive.” I get up, and before feeding the cats, I light my altars. I used to do three things I’m grateful for before getting out of bed, but now, I say three times: “I’m grateful for all the joy, abundance, and love that finds me today.” Then, three times: “I am open. When I’m physically gonna get up out of bed, I now do these mantras. I check for overnight messages from my friends in the U.K. By 5:30, I’m aware of the world, and even though I want to keep sleeping, I’m up, and I do grab my phone. during the strike, she detailed her intense usual schedule and how she dealt with suddenly having nothing to do.Īround 5:15 a.m., my asshole cat Roscoe starts meowing. Speaking to the Cut from her home in L.A. ![]() Most tragic of all, it was cut short when COVID-19 hit weeks before the third season aired Saracho had originally planned for six.Īfter Vida ended, Saracho went straight back to work and juggled several projects in various stages until the WGA writers’ strike started in May. It’s intrinsically queer and Latine, and as delightfully messy as it is tragic. The critically acclaimed Starz series follows a pair of chaotic sisters as they deal with the grief and stress brought on by their mother’s death and their return to their childhood stomping grounds in L.A.’s Boyle Heights, where gentrification is creeping in. She never stopped writing for the stage, even as she graduated from TV writer to showrunner on Vida. When a UTA agent approached her, she says, “I didn’t understand that this meeting was like, ‘Do you want to be a TV writer?’ I had no training in TV, and the agent didn’t believe me.” Soon, she was in her first “kind of horrible” writers’ room: “But it was great because I wrote a play about it.” And making theater was always the plan she spent almost 15 years in Chicago working as a playwright, director, dramaturg, and actress - sometimes all at once - in theatrical productions, often at Teatro Luna, a local theater she co-founded with a collective of Latina thespians. Tanya Saracho is a theater kid at heart, right down to her “Yes, and” attitude. Photo-Illustration: by The Cut Photo: Jackson Davis ![]()
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