Rose Portillo

Born: 1953-11-07 Los Angeles - California - USA

ROSE PORTILLO is an accomplished actor/writer/director/educator and visual artist whose stage and film career began with a lead role in Luis Valdez's ZOOT SUIT, (original LA production, Broadway, Film).  She is Associate Director of About Productions, now celebrating 24 years of creating original theaterworks and founded the company’s Young Theaterworks which serves students in Continuation/Options High Schools primarily in East Los Angeles. Since appearing in Theresa Chavez’s solo play, L.A. Real, she has directly partnered with Chavez, the company’s Artistic Director, on more than nine critically acclaimed productions. As an actor, Rose has ...