Claudia Acosta (Tia Cristina) is a New York-based actor, director, producer and teaching artist originally from Texas. As an actor, she most recently appeared as Lupita in Page 73’s Mancave. Other credits include: Rattlestick Playwright’s Theater (Seven Spots on the Sun), WP Theater (Architecture of Becoming), HERE (Don Cristobal Billy Club Man), INTAR (Dance for a Dollar), Chautauqua Theater Company (Guadalupe), Platforma Internațională de Teatru București in Romania (Two Arms and a Noise). In Texas, she has been in many productions with Hip Pocket Theater, Cara Mia, Artes De la Rosa and Teatro Dallas. Claudia has been a featured narrator for Performing Arts Fort Worth and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in their annual bilingual Children’s Educational Programs at Bass Performance Hall for fifteen years. She is a teaching artist for Arts Connection, MTC, New York Theater Workshop and Lincoln Center Education. Claudia has directed for Lehman College, SUNY New Paltz, and most recently Teatro Dallas’s Grave is Given Supper in association with New Ohio’s 2021 Ice Factory Festival. As a founding collective member of The Sol Project, she has produced many readings and workshops for playwrights. Claudia currently co-produces Echoes Writing Group with Primary Stages.