Digital Media Artist

Adam Cooper-Terán (ACT) is a native of Tucson, Arizona, born from a mixed heritage of Mexican, Yaqui, and Jewish roots. Known for their collaborations among various performance troupes, theater companies, musicians, and dancers, Adam’s work has featured across the globe as large-scale media projections, musical interventions, and installations of digital storytelling.

Social Media Manager

Anita Chavarin has a background in social media management and digital marketing. Anita began her marketing career working for Hydrant, a Tucson-based Marketing Agency. Since then, she has worked as a freelance creative as well as for-profit businesses. She has more than three years of experience in developing multi-channel content strategies, copywriting, and digital analytics. She is passionate about creating educational content that promotes awareness for social and environmental matters.

Musical Director

Hailing originally from the border town of Yuma, Arizona, Jonathan Heras is a seasoned actor, singer, and musician with a career spanning over two decades. With a passion for storytelling and a deep connection to the stage, Jonathan has become a multifaceted artist currently contributing in the Tucson area. Jonathan is in his 4th year as Musical Director at Salpointe Catholic High School.

Production Manager

As a biracial explorer of this world, with roots in the US and Malaysia, Katharine centers her work on individual and community stories and the connection to place and others, accessibility, community development as freedom, and healing. With two decades of experience working with for profit and nonprofit organizations in Southeast Asia, California, New York, District of Columbia, Virginia and Arizona, Katharine leads with generosity, abundance and a curious mind.

Producing Artistic Director

Marc David Pinate is an indigenous Xicano making theatre in his ancestral home, the Sonoran Desert. He is the producing artistic director of Borderlands Theater. His passion for creative placemaking has led to his work developing and directing ethnographic projects focused on Southern Arizona narratives, most notably the Barrio Stories Project: a series of large scale, site-specific heritage festivals employing theatre to center the history and heritage of Tucson’s historic barrios.

Visual Artist

Mel “Melo” Dominguez is an artist, muralist from Los Angeles who has lived in Tucson since 2007. Mel’s community outreach began at Self Help Graphics & Art in East Los Angeles where he was a Getty intern. Mel was the Summer Youth Coordinator that headed the community mural project with the youth from the neighborhood. Mel’s artwork is a direct expression of his Chicano/a culture, political issues, social issues and environmental issues.

Associate Artistic Director & Playwright

Milta Ortiz, an award-winning playwright, was born in El Salvador and raised in the Bay Area, she now calls Tucson home. She’s developing Anita, a musical in collaboration with composer Quetzal Guerrero. Milta was a 2020-21 Projecting All Voices Mellon fellow at Arizona State University. Milta is Associate Artistic Director at Borderlands Theater, where a few of her plays, including Sanctuary (2018) and Más (2015) have world premiered.

Composer/Musician

The further you dig into QVLN’s continually evolving music catalog and expanding international presence, the more you understand why he’s considered a Global Music artist. With his genre-less approach to music creation and curated collaborations, QVLN has been able to make notable inroads in various music scenes.