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b'Josefina L\\xf3pez (Writer/Director/Producer/Performer/Author/Activist/Shaman) is best known for authoring the play and co-authoring the 2002 SUNDANCE AWARD WINNING film Real Women Have Curves. L\\xf3pez started her writing career at 17 and has had over 130 productions produced of her many plays throughout the country. She has been working as a professional screenwriter in Hollywood for over 30 years with countless development deals and screenplay assignments. She has worked with many established producers like Norman Lear (All In the Family) and Michael McDonald (American Crime) to bring Latinos to television. Born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico on March 19, 1969, Josefina L\\xf3pez was five-years-old when she and her family migrated to the United States and settled in the East Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights. L\\xf3pez was undocumented for 13 years before she received Amnesty in 1987 and eventually became a U.S. Citizen in 1995. She is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago, has an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA\\u2019s School of Film/Television and Theater, as well as a Dipl\\xf4me de Cuisine from Le Cordon Bleu, Paris, France. L\\xf3pez has also attended the New School of Cooking in Culver City, CA where she studied cuisine with a California touch and making pastries, and at the Gourmandise Cooking School in Santa Monica, CA where she studied chocolate making, bread making, pasta making and pastries. Josefina L\\xf3pez is the Founding Artistic Director of CASA 0101 Theater.'