Former Streetfeet Women

BLANCA BONILLA [active years: 1984-2007] born in 1961 in Lares, Puerto Rico, and moved to Boston when she was 13. She has performed with Boston Youtheatre, Teatro Accion, El Pueblo Nuevo, and created the role of Dorotea in Streefeet's El Mago de Oz/The Wizard of Oz. Blanca received the Best Actress Award from the Boston Public Schools in 1979. She is a pre-school teacher and is studying Early Childhood Education at Wheelock College. (from a 1985 Streetfeet Women's Touring Company brochure)

(from 2007 Streetfeet brochure) Blanca ...was the ninth of thirteen children. She attended Wheelock College... [and] is the former director of the Tobin Family Theater Program and now works as an Outreach Coordinator at the Boston Arts Academy. She wrote and produced the film "Lagrimas" in partnership with her sister, Fina; they have also had two scripts, "On-trial" and "I Love You So Much," chosen as finalists in the Sundance Screenwriters Competition. She is a member of the Latino Film Showcase at the Strand Theater in Dorchester, Mass.

NATALIE BOSTROM [active years: 1990-]

CHRISTINA "CHRIS" FADALA (deceased) [active years: 1999-], of Italian, Greek and Irish descent, grew up in an Italian neighborhood in Albany, New York. She holds a B.F.A. in Theater/Musical Theater from the Boston Conservatory. She has been performing since age six. Chris studied voice, piano and acting from age eleven. She is a member of AFTRA and SAG and her credits include numerous film, TV, radio, voice-overs, video, stage, comedy revue and murder mystery productions. Chris performed locally as a company member with the New Ehrlich Theater, Haley Productions, and Mobius Performing Group of Boston, MA; she has done summer stock on Cape Cod, in Weston, Vermont, and in Providence, Rhode Island. Chris has her own voice over business (www.chrisfadala.com). (from the 2007 Streetfeet Women brochure)

(from the 2006 program for An American Kaleidoscope) She is a member of AFTRA and SAG and her credits include film, TV, radio, voice-overs, video, stage, comedy revues, and murder mystery productions.

BEATRICE GREENE [active years: 2009 - ] is an African American composer, pianist, writer, and preacher born in the South Bronx. Her works include numerous piano compositions that draw upon her musical palette of West African percussion, swing, blues, Latin rhythms, spirituals, and traditional Western harmony and counterpoint. In 2005 Beatrice received a commission from the Women’s United Nations Reporting Network to write and perform a composition, honoring those who fight internationally to end violence against women based on tradition and culture, at Andover Newtown Theological School, where she has been a student. Her poems and essays interweave philosophy, social justice, theology, science, and a profound love of nature. She holds degrees from Berklee College of Music, the College of Wooster, and Howard University. Her music can be found at www.myspace.com/beatricegreenerhythms.

See Beatrice Greene speaking about The Bones We Carry in this video.

DIANA SABELLA MOSCHELLA [active years: 1980-93] born in 1950, has lived in Boston all her life except for a year spent in Mexico. She is a second generation American of an Italian immigrant family. Her grandparents came to the United States from Sicily and from Northern Italy, looking for a better life; they were very poor. Diana was brought up with lower class attitudes; as a Mediterranean woman, and as a Catholic, "Most of that was invaluable," she says, "and some of it I work on changing." Most of Diana's nine years of training has been in modern dance, jazz dace, tap, acting, improvisational theatre and dance, directing, voice, conga drumming, and ballet. she has performed in jazz and improvisational dance, in children's theater, bilingual (Spanish/English) theatre and in her own choreographed pieces. She is an experienced teacher and choreographer. (from a 1983 Streetfeet Women's Touring Company brochure)

AURA SANCHEZ [active years: 1991-2009] was born in the South Bronx to Puerto Rican parents living in one of the oldest barrios in New York City. Her quest to "figure out how and where I fit" in the American mosaic led her to study sociology and anthropology at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She holds an M.A. in Education from Harvard and a law degree from Northeastern University. She has served as Peace Corps Country Director in Micronesia, where she lived and worked for two years. Presently she is coordinating a legal access program for immigrant victims of domestic violence. She lives in Winthrop, Massachusetts. She writes poetry and essays about growing up Latina in urban America. Aura has been a guest reader in workshops for Boston high school students and has participated in the Joiner Center Writers' Conference, University of Massachusetts. She joined The Streetfeet Women in 1991. (from the 1995 Streetfeet brochure)

(from the 2007 brochure) Most recently Aura was Executive Director of the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition. She Lives in Winthrop, Mass. ... She has been a guest reader in workshops for Boston High School students and has participated in the Joiner Center Writers' Conference, University of Massachusetts [Boston].