Paloma Valenzuela

Paloma Valenzuela is a playwright, screenwriter, actress and director originally from the city of Boston. She is the creator of La Gringa Loca Productions, a multi-media production operation based in the Dominican Republic and the United States. In 2009 Paloma graduated from Emerson College as a Writing for Film and Television Major and promptly moved to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic to work on developing projects in film and television in her country of origin. She began as the Second AD for a Dominican sitcom directed by famous Dominican director Angel Muñiz. Since then she has written various short films for directors both in Boston and the Dominican Republic, and collaborated as script doctor for several Dominican feature films as well as worked as Second AD for three feature films in the Dominican Republic ("Colours" 2017, "Malcriados" 2017, "La Rasante" 2017) . She has written and directed, through La Gringa Loca Productions, three stage plays both in Boston and the Dominican Republic: "RANT!" (2008), "Show Up" (2012, directed by Adobuere Ebiama) and "Queseyocuanto" (2012), A Short Film entitled "La Oficina" (2008), A 60 Min. Film "Saturday" (2010), Two Promotional Video for the popular blog Miss Rizos "Lecciones en La Calle" (2011), A Documentary Web Series, "Onomatopeyas Dominicanas" (2013-2014), An official commercial for Miss Rizos Salón in Santo Domingo (2015), a comedic web series "The Pineapple Diaries" (2015-2016), and a short film adapted from "The Pineapple Diaries" entitled "Pero Mi Cedula, No" (2015) which won the Special Jury Prize at the International Festival of Santo Domingo Mujeres en Cortos 2016. In July of 2016 she played the role of "Lolita" in the upcoming Dominican coming-of-age comedic feature film "Un 4to de Josue". Paloma Valenzuela was a New England Foundation for the Arts Creative City Grantee in 2016. In 2016 she produced and launched the second season of the comedic web series "The Pineapple Diaries". "The Pineapple Diaries" was Official Selection at the Roxbury International Film Festival 2017 in Boston and also the Official Latino Short Festival 2017 in New York City. In 2017 she was also featured on the WGBH television series, "Stories from the Stage". In between projects Paloma has offered several writing workshops and screened "The Pineapple Diaries" at local schools and in local events such as "Poetry is Busy: Visible Caribe Series" among others. She is working on film projects in the United States and the Dominican Republic.