Josefina Lopez Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Josefina Lopez (born 1969, San Luis Potosí, Mexico) is a Chicana playwright, perhaps best known as the author of the play (and co-author of the screenplay) Real Women Have Curves. Lopez was born in 1969, in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, and at age five emigrated with her family to the United States, where they settled in El Paso, Texas. She graduated from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts before obtaining a BA in film and screenwriting from Columbia College Chicago, and an MFA in screenwriting from the School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA. After having over 100... MORE

Josefina Lopez (born 1969, San Luis Potosí, Mexico) is a Chicana playwright, perhaps best known as the author of the play (and co-author of the screenplay) Real Women Have Curves. Lopez was born in 1969, in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, and at age five emigrated with her family to the United States, where they settled in El Paso, Texas. She graduated from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts before obtaining a BA in film and screenwriting from Columbia College Chicago, and an MFA in screenwriting from the School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA. After having over 100 productions of her plays throughout the United States, Josefina Lopez is one of today's preeminent Chicana writers. She has written several plays such as Simply Maria, Or the American Dream; Confessions of Women From East L.A.; Boyle Heights; Lola Goes To Roma; Food For The Dead; Unconquered Spirits; Queen of the Rumba and Real Women Have Curves. She is the co-screenwriter of the film version of her play Real Women Have Curves, starring America Ferrera (Ugly Betty) and Ingrid Oliu (Stand and Deliver). The movie garnered much acclaim, including at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival where the film won the LESS